The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

In this blog post, we present our project on Auto Remediation, which integrates the currently used rule-based classifier with an ML service and aims to automatically remediate failed jobs without human intervention. Auto Remediation generates recommendations by considering both performance (i.e., Multi-objective optimizations.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Business and technology leaders are increasing their investments in AI to achieve business goals and improve operational efficiency. From generating new code and boosting developer productivity to finding the root cause of performance issues with ease, the benefits of AI are numerous.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Across both his day one and day two mainstage presentations, Steve Tack, SVP of Product Management, described some of the investments we’re making to continue to differentiate the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform. This drives precise answers in real-time about performance issues and anomalies across the full stack.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing.

Engineering 202

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

Automation and analysis features, in particular, have boosted operational efficiency and performance by tracking and responding to complex or information-dense situations. In a perfect world, a robust AI model can perform complex tasks while users observe the decision process and audit any errors or concerns.

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Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Government Technology 214

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Any problem, such as a simple software update overburdening a critical database, can cause a ripple effect that degrades the performance of dependent services or applications. It provides accurate real-time insights to ensure operational integrity and optimal performance to meet an organization’s service-level objectives (SLOs).

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

As more organizations adopt generative AI and cloud-native technologies, IT teams confront more challenges with securing their high-performing cloud applications in the face of expanding attack surfaces. Likewise, with observability of systems that run AI models, organizations can predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps 214

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. A larger network footprint allows for content to be cached closer to end-users, reducing latency and improving performance. What is CDN Architecture?‍

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Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Efficient lock-free durable sets Zuriel et al., Moreover, for better performance, the processor may change the order in which writes reach the NVRAM, making it difficult for the NVRAM to even reflect a consistent prefix of the computation. Performance evaluation. OOPSLA’19. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them. Data Featurization A complete list of features used in this work is presented in Table 1. The features mainly belong to two distinct classes.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

‍A content delivery network (CDN) is a distributed network of servers strategically located across multiple geographical locations to deliver web content to end users more efficiently. Performance‍The number and distribution of PoPs play a crucial role in performance. ‍What is CDN Architecture? Here are a few examples.Â

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Architecture Cache Performance Latency 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Yet upgrading antiquated systems and effectively integrating them into modern workflows is challenging despite the potential to increase efficiency, improve security, reduce the higher operational costs associated with supporting tech debt, and avoid the foreseeable breaks in end-of-life apps.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. This blog post explores how AI observability enables organizations to predict and control costs, performance, and data reliability.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

How the MongoDB timeout is set up can significantly affect your application’s performance, no matter if you are an experienced MongoDB user or just starting with NoSQL databases. Doing so helps ensure optimal performance while maintaining adequate levels of protection against unwanted connection attempts.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At USENIX SREcon22 APAC I gave the opening keynote on the future of computer performance, rounding up the latest developments and making predictions of where I see things heading. This talk originated from my updates to [Systems Performance 2nd Edition], and this was the first time I've given this talk in person! Or even on a plane.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 19, 2021

I don't recall ever having a performance issue with sys.partitions. It could surely be rewritten to be more efficient, particularly to only reference the sys.sysrowsets and TABLE ALUCOUNT objects once. And the following plan when there are not ( click to enlarge ): Plan for sys.partitions, with no columnstore indexes present.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! By the end of this series, we hope you will gain an understanding of how Psyberg transformed our data processing, making our pipelines more efficient, accurate, and timely. Let’s dive in! We will talk about this shortly.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Continuous cloud monitoring enables real-time detection and response to incidents, with best practices highlighting the importance of assessing cloud service providers, adopting layered security, and leveraging automation for efficient scanning and monitoring. Nevertheless, this integration can present certain challenges to organizations.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Despite the fact that more than 80% of organizations now employ multicloud architecture, “hyperscaler” clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure present monitoring and management issues for cloud practitioners. AWS re:Invent 2021: Modernizing for cloud-native environments. Why modern observability is different.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is useful for application performance monitoring in cloud, virtualized, and physical environments, including Kubernetes workloads, application security, and business analytics. Peak performance analysis. This is also known as root-cause analysis. Fault isolation. Indexing overhead.

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Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 217

Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2023

These retail-business processes must work together efficiently to orchestrate customer satisfaction: Inventory management ensures you can anticipate and meet dynamic customer demand. Aggregating tracking information and presenting it to customers in a uniform way can be a challenge. Multi-channel logistics.

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Retail Logistics Innovation Analytics 205

DZone

JUNE 7, 2023

A/B testing involves comparing two or more variations of a webpage or user experience to determine which one performs better in achieving predefined goals. A/B testing plays a significant role in improving conversion rates, user engagement, and overall website performance. Websites are not static entities; they evolve over time.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Ultimately, IT automation can deliver consistency, efficiency, and better business outcomes for modern enterprises. Automating IT practices without integrated AIOps presents several challenges. IT automation tools can achieve enterprise-wide efficiency. By tuning workflows, you can increase their efficiency and effectiveness.

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Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 191

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

and thus fall back to less efficient encode families. Since then, we have applied innovations such as shot-based encoding and newer codecs to deploy more efficient encode families. Performance results In this section, we present an overview of the performance of our new encodes compared to our existing H.264

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Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

With three sessions delivered around the globe and all but two presentations delivered live, it was great to set attendance records, and this is a testament to the strength of our partners and the community they create. Recognizing the immense contribution of our partners is truly one of the highlights of our year.

Programming 236

Programming Cloud Virtualization Technology 236

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2022

Automate cloud operations and trigger remediation workflow to enhance efficiency. Dynatrace uses your data and its sophisticated AI causation engine Davis® to automatically detect performance anomalies in applications, services, and infrastructure. The Dynatrace problem-detection-and-analysis advantage. Log Viewer. Log Events.

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AWS Transportation Network Traffic 220

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is useful for application performance monitoring in cloud, virtualized, and physical environments, including Kubernetes workloads, application security, and business analytics. Peak performance analysis. This is also known as root-cause analysis. Fault isolation. Indexing overhead.

Analytics 183

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 183

Dynatrace

APRIL 25, 2023

It helps developers and operators identify and troubleshoot issues, optimize performance and improve user experience. Observability challenges in serverless applications can be therefore categorized into: Data collection : how to collect metrics, logs and traces from serverless functions efficiently, reliably, and consistently?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As a discipline, SRE focuses on improving software system reliability across key categories including availability, performance, latency, efficiency, capacity, and incident response. SRE applies DevOps principles to developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.

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Engineering DevOps Government Latency 256

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1). Our focus is on typefaces for reading large amounts of text and information in the most efficient, legible, pleasurable, comprehensible, and effective way possible. Thomas Bohm. 2022-06-03T10:00:00+00:00.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A bloom filter is a space-efficient way of storing information about a list of keys. If all the bits are “1”, the value may be present. For good performance, the filter blocks are cached in the RocksDB block cache and normally stay there since they are accessed frequently.

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Storage Tuning Cache Engineering 127

Dynatrace

MAY 24, 2021

With three sessions delivered around the globe and all but two presentations delivered live, it was great to set attendance records, and this is a testament to the strength of our partners and the community they create. Recognizing the immense contribution of our partners is truly one of the highlights of our year.

Programming 172

Programming Cloud Virtualization Technology 172

Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2021

At Perform 2021, Rick Stewart, chief software technologist at DLT Solutions, and Willie Hicks, Federal CTO at Dynatrace, explained how the only way to build this culture is for organizations to adopt proactive DevSecOps practices. But an ad-hoc approach to security won’t work with DevOps—it requires coordination and planning.

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Code DevOps Speed Government 160

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. It provides a consistent platform that integrates with a variety of message queuing types to enable consistent performance regardless of the platform. This approach is common in transaction-intensive environments in which teams perform the same tasks repetitively.

Monitoring 202

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 202

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

For nonurgent messages, texting is a more efficient approach. It provides a consistent platform that integrates with a variety of message queuing types to enable consistent performance regardless of the platform. This approach is common in transaction-intensive environments in which teams perform the same tasks repetitively.

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