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What is chaos engineering?

Dynatrace

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. But the cloud brought new complexities, such as increasing connections and dependencies.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Stay tuned for more details on this, as well as more details on the internals of the new SKU Platform in one of our upcoming blog posts. How, when, and where people want to be entertained continues to evolve. The SKU Platform supports this via lightweight configuration changes to rules that do not require a full deployment.

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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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Working at Netflix 2017

Brendan Gregg

We're on the EC2 cloud, which has great scalability, and our own cloud architecture of microservices is also designed for scalability. For Linux, I've also done tuning, kernel analysis, [gdb], testing of [hist triggers], testing of some perf patches, and contributed a few trivial patches of my own.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design

Smashing Magazine

My knowledge of typography developed alongside my enthusiasm for expressive and entertaining type. Learning how people interact with a website or use a product shouldn’t dictate a design but instead provide a platform on which to develop engaging, entertaining, and ultimately more memorable experiences. Masking Scalable Type.

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Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography

Smashing Magazine

From left: Pulp Fiction by Indika Entertainment Advertising. On top of basic font style properties, we can now reliably fine-tune OpenType figures, hyphenation, ligatures, and even kerning. SVG includes other properties which fine-tune aspects of a stroke. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by BLT and Steve Chorney. Large preview ).

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