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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. But the cloud brought new complexities, such as increasing connections and dependencies. Blast radius.

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Engineering a Studio Quality Experience With High-Quality Audio at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We’re really proud of the improvements we’ve brought to the video experience, but the focus on those makes it easy to overlook the importance of sound , and sound is every bit as important to entertainment as video. We expect these bitrates to evolve over time as we get more efficient with our encoding techniques.

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What is an A/B Test?

The Netflix TechBlog

In other types of experiments, we might focus on more technical metrics, such as the time it takes the app to load, or the quality of video we are able to provide under different network conditions. How do we most efficiently analyze the data? Figure 2: A simple A/B test. There’s a lot of statistics involved as well?—?how

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Wednesday?—?December We share everything attendees need to implement CloudTrail in their own organizations.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Wednesday?—?December We share everything attendees need to implement CloudTrail in their own organizations.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient. Attention allocation was outsourced to the machines.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. This talk explores the journey, learnings, and improvements to performance analysis, efficiency, reliability, and security. Wednesday?—?December

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