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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

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. In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. Accelerates innovation.

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Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking

The Morning Paper

You need a lot of software engineers and the willingness to rewrite a lot of software to entertain that idea. Here are the bombshell paragraphs: Our datacenter applications seek ever more CPU-efficient and lower-latency communication, which Pony Express delivers. The desire for CPU efficiency and lower latencies is easy to understand.

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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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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. A small percentage of production traffic is redirected to the two new clusters, allowing us to monitor the new version’s performance and compare it against the current version.

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Data Mesh?—?A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users. Once deployed, the pipeline performs the actual heavy lifting data processing work. More Processing Patterns And Better Efficiency People use Data Mesh not only to move data.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

I wrote a page on it: [perf]. - **eBPF**: tracing features completed in 2016, this provides efficient programmatic tracing to existing kernel frameworks. As a performance engineer who does kernel tracing, I find the lack of an ID I can trace in the kernel to be pretty annoying. It's the official profiler.