The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at some of the best error monitoring tools and strategies for 2018. Error monitoring can get increasingly complicated as you deal with bugs reported by users and your production team, which is why having an efficient error tracking workflow from the beginning is so important. What is Error Tracking?

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Strategy Monitoring Website Google 67

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

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Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. Application security has historically been addressed after development is completed.

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DevOps Best Practices Open Source Tuning 271

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

If tuned for performance, there is a good change reliability is compromised - and vice versa. Lack of support for older versions is a common issue with open source data pipeline frameworks which means you have to stay on top of the new releases and ensure that you are always close to the current stable release.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Open source has also become a fundamental building block of the entire cloud-native stack. While leveraging cloud-native platforms, open-source and third-party libraries accelerate time to value significantly, it also creates new challenges for application security.

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Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 292

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. We’ll say more about this later.)

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

With dependable near real-time data, Studio teams are able to track and react better to the ever-changing pace of productions and improve efficiency of global business operations using the most up-to-date information. Operational Reporting Pipeline Example Iceberg Sink Apache Iceberg is an open source table format for huge analytics datasets.

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Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Percona

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Access control: Tailor access permissions for child roles based on their inheritance, ensuring a granular and secure access control strategy. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community, in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It has become a de facto standard for perceptual quality measurements within Netflix and, thanks to its open-source nature , throughout the video industry. Video quality has matured in Cosmos and we are invested in making VQS more flexible and efficient. Stay tuned for more details on these algorithmic innovations.

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Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Therefore, dumps are needed to capture the full state of a source. There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. We want to support these systems as a source so that they can provide their data for further consumption. Figure 4— Delta Connector.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Therefore, dumps are needed to capture the full state of a source. There are several open source CDC projects, often using the same underlying libraries, database APIs, and protocols. We want to support these systems as a source so that they can provide their data for further consumption. Using database specific features.

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Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

JULY 6, 2023

In PostgreSQL, there are different ways it can leverage the indexes to produce the most efficient plan. But still, this is one of the most efficient ways of retrieving data from a table. Tune the random_page_cost parameter. Tune the effective_cache_size parameter. Next is the table definition.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can download these models to use out of the box, or employ minimal compute resources to fine-tune them for your particular task. Isn’t it nice to uncover that in a simulated environment, where we can map out our risk mitigation strategies with calm, level heads?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

For example, you could reduce compression efficiency , because that works better with more data. As such, a micro-optimization is, again, how you probably need to fine-tune things on a low level to really benefit from it. This is true, but only to a relatively limited extent. What Does It All Mean? Clients and QUIC Discovery.

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