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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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Update Percona Monitoring and Management Agent Settings for Already-Added Instances

Percona

For example, a table statistics limit is introduced to avoid querying information_schema.tables that may impact DB performance, especially with a high number of DBs / tables present in an instance. I hope you find the article useful and somewhat entertaining. What if you want to change the value later on?

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What is web application security? Everything you need to know.

Dynatrace

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Positive filters are highly effective at blocking attacks but require constant tuning. Teams need to verify and potentially adjust this tuning every time the application changes. What is web application security?

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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. Constrained environments can be due to changing network conditions and device performance limitations.

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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. A brownout phase performs a preparatory background transfer of all the key state to a memory region shared with the new version. Upgrades are performed incrementally, one engine at a time. Performance numbers.

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A Small (or BIG) Step for Leadership Teams: Focus on Diversity and Inclusion

Tasktop

We believe that diverse teams perform better and foster an environment of belonging and inclusion. We’ve instituted a more diverse “calendar” and volunteers are educating and even entertaining the company with monthly themed topics on things such as Mexican culture, arts, food and music. iamtasktop.

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Working at Netflix 2017

Brendan Gregg

Instead, it has been a process of continual improvements, by many engineers across the company. ## A Day in the Life (Performance Engineering) What do I actually do all day? Most of my day is a 50/50 mixture of proactive projects, and reactive performance analysis. or at least try to! eBPF]: /blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux-2016.html

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