The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

We build creator tooling to enable these colleagues to focus their time and energy on creativity. Unfortunately, much of their energy goes into labor-intensive pre-work. We implemented a batch processing system for users to submit their requests and wait for the system to generate the output.

Media 291

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 291

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Business innovation costs money. But organizations may not always have insight into how their moves toward innovation generate costs as well as revenue. Bernd Greifeneder, Dynatrace founder and CTO, acknowledged in his opening remarks at Dynatrace Perform 2024 that even his team suffers from tool sprawl. Smart orchestration.

Cloud 220

Cloud Energy Innovation Infrastructure 220

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As regular readers of this letter will know, our energy at Amazon comes from the desire to impress customers rather than the zeal to best competitors. AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013.

AWS 132

AWS Energy Innovation Best Practices 132

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

E.g., to see process execution with timestamps using execsnoop(8): # execsnoop-bpfcc -T. Low frequency events such as process execution should be negligible to capture. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table. Talk to us, try it out, innovate.

Latency 145

Latency Cache Energy Systems 145

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read on to learn more about generative AI, causal AI, predictive AI, and how the AWS platform, alongside observability, promotes digital transformation, cloud modernization, and cloud migration without compromising application performance and security. Relying on manual processes results in outages, increased costs, and frustrated customers.

AWS 218

AWS Artificial Intelligence Analytics Cloud 218

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This growth was spurred by mobile ecosystems with Android and iOS operating systems, where ARM has a unique advantage in energy efficiency while offering high performance. Energy efficiency and carbon footprint outshine x86 architectures The first clear benefit of ARM in the enterprise IT landscape is energy efficiency.

Efficiency 274

Efficiency Architecture Energy Monitoring 274

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As global warming advances, growing IT carbon footprints are pushing energy-efficient computing to the top of many organizations’ priority lists. Energy efficiency is a key reason why organizations are migrating workloads from energy-intensive on-premises environments to more efficient cloud platforms.

Energy 243

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 243

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It then promotes a snowball effect as the more you migrate, the more you save on IT and energy expenditures. Reinvesting resource savings into new technologies built for sustainability, innovation, and efficiency ensures that enterprises are equipped with the tools to enable greater business continuity and accelerate growth.

Azure 181

Azure Technology Technology Cloud 181

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

When there is an incentives mismatch, a lot of energy can be expended. Every person in the team had their own personal list of objectives to complete and was rewarded for individual performance. If a team takes time away from delivery work to improve their process they are celebrated.

Technology 59

Technology Technology DevOps Energy 59

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It’s a sign that you need to implement test automation and let your computer perform a cross-platform, cross-device, and cross-browser test. The whole process is time-consuming because testers will test on multiple browsers, settings, and devices. You team is spending too much time doing regression testing.

Testing 54

Testing Testing Tools Software Engineering Efficiency 54

Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

Organizations can now accelerate innovation and reduce the risk of failed software releases by incorporating on-demand synthetic monitoring as a metrics provider for automatic, continuous release-validation processes. Dynatrace customer Duke Energy utilizes synthetic on-demand execution capability. “We Dynatrace news.

Monitoring 211

Monitoring Software Software DevOps 211

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

But transportation creates a lot of other problems such as energy consumption and pollution, so cars are regulated for their safety equipment, the types and quantities of energy they use, and the amount of pollution they generate. In this way, government can get its citizenry mobile with fewer negative consequences.

Transportation 40

Transportation Government Automotive Media 40

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. The SE toolkit was fast, had no memory leaks (monitoring scripts could run for years) and let me implement lots of cool performance monitoring ideas.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Organizations need automatic intelligence to identify the root cause of cloud systems’ performance and security issues. Using automatic and intelligent observability promotes faster innovation, greater efficiency, and better business outcomes. The goal is to identify issues before they affect system performance or user experience.

Strategy 232

Strategy Energy Cloud Innovation 232

Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

While basic, I've solved many perf issues with this tool alone, including for misconfigured systems where a shell script is launching failing processes in a loop, and when some minor application is crashing and is restarting every few minutes but has not yet been noticed. ## 2. execsnoop New processes (via exec(2)) table 2. acpid [.]

Open Source 40

Open Source Latency Cache Energy 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this article, I will introduce the subject of competitive analysis , which is basically a method to determine how well your competitors are performing. It should be useful if you are new to product design, UX, interaction or digital design, or if you have experience in these fields but have not performed a competitive analysis before.

Google 59

Google Design Strategy Website 59

O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Entropy" refers to the second law of thermodynamics, which roughly states that systems over time will degrade into an increasingly chaotic state, such that the amount of energy in the system available for work is diminished. Adding security reduces performance. The operating model: processes and how your company conducts its business.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

1.6x : better deep learning cluster scheduling on k8s; 100,000 : Large-scale Diverse Driving Video Database; 3rd : reddit popularity in the US; 50% : increase in Neural Information Processing System papers, AI bubble? Rasing the level of abstraction using Domain Specific Languages makes it easier for programmers and architects to innovate.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Testsigma

JULY 22, 2021

You try to break anything you try new, you are skeptical and perform some testing yourself to see if anything new works fine! I spent a lot of time and effort performing worthless tests and writing worthless automation, and it took me quite a few years before I learned how to do better. Where do you get this energy from?

Software 97

Software Software Testing Energy 97

Tech News Gather

MAY 3, 2023

By not worrying about platform-specific development, you can devote more time and energy to enhancing the app’s functionality and user experience. Cross-platform frameworks make it possible to create an app that appears native on all platforms, but this process is more involved than it first appears.

Mobile 40

Mobile Development Open Source Energy 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

These applications are typically a mix of long running processes and short lived jobs with varying levels of priority. Furthermore, they felt that this was undifferentiated heavy lifting and would rather focus their energy on running their applications and growing their businesses. State Management with Amazon ECS.

Energy 115

Energy AWS Scalability Availability 115

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Performance. Finding the simplest react alternatives isn’t as straightforward as many assume because it’s exhausting to search out an ideal match whilst considering the stability and ecosystem support together with API performance delivered by ReactJS. Preact lacks innovation and essentially mimics React. Package size.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Entertainment Virtualization 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

It takes very little energy: the feedback loop doesn’t power the amplifier. You can’t hear the performers, you can’t even hear your noisy neighbor. Chris Wiggins of Columbia University’s Data Science Institute argues that organizations need to take ethical principles into account when formulating their key performance metrics.

Social Media 53

Social Media Media Network Energy 53

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. At the same time, we avoid academic results with little or no empirical support.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

Thus leadership and its derivative characteristics - notably innovation and responsiveness - are the result of calculated, not wanton, risk taking. It provides guarantees for availability, performance and completeness for delivery of identified, regimented services or functionality. Traditionally, IT has been a risk assumer.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As is the case for many high-quality computer systems conferences, the papers presented here involve a significant amount of engineering and experimentation on real hardware to convincingly evaluate innovative concepts end-to-end in a realistic setting.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12