The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. Shown below are rate versus quality examples for a couple of titles from our HDR catalog. We present two sets. The first set (Fig.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

Examples of qualitative questions include: How is automation created at your organization? By contrast, the quantitative questions include: What proportion of time do software engineering and development teams spend writing automation scripts? What deployment strategies does your organization use?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Pallavi, what’s your journey to data engineering at Netflix?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent webinar , Dynatrace DevOps activist Andi Grabner and senior software engineer Yarden Laifenfeld explored developer observability. In this example, Grabner saw that the adservice workload was running on EKS and could see the relevant metrics, logs, services, events, error logs, and more.

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The Morning Paper

JANUARY 16, 2020

Synthesizing data structure transformations from input-output examples , Feser et al., Program synthesis from examples falls into that latter camp, and the use case addressed here is a perfect fit for it: transforming data structures. So for example given the input [[1,3,5],[5,3,2]] the output should be [[3,5],[5,3]].

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

For example, how much does a reduction in MTTR impact revenue? Customer empathy is key to a fully optimized site reliability engineering practice Software engineering can often be an impersonal discipline. Generative AI and the future of site reliability engineering “AI is not new in the APM world,” reminded Aguiar.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 6, 2024

” Because of their versatility, teams can use IDPs for all types of software engineering projects, not just those in cloud-native scenarios. Grabner gave the example of one Dynatrace banking customer who built an IDP that enables developers to provision new Azure machines or Chef policies without administrative help.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 29, 2021

Another important part of the new website is also the new Engineering blog, which focuses on sharing insider stories of life and work at our Dynatrace R&D Labs, giving an inside view into what it means to work at Dynatrace and what happens behind the scenes that set us apart.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 28, 2023

Especially when new security vulnerabilities are detected, collaboration with the right people—for example, the team responsible for a vulnerable service—is vital to keeping negative impact low and MTTR at a minimum. Despite increasing automation, software development and incident management are human-centered activities.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2022

For example, organizations can use their mobile applications to sell subscriptions for services, promote upsell opportunities toward a focused audience, keep close contact with known target groups, and maintain a direct, always-on channel with their customers. The business value of mobile applications. Define targets and construct dashboards.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2023

For detailed instructions, see the topic Example configuration of service-level objective definitions in the Dynatrace documentation. Again, for details about this process, see the topic Example configuration of service-level objective definitions in the Dynatrace documentation. Web service 99.5% x 1 94 x 0.75 (97 x 1.25) + (98.75

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Dynatrace

JULY 18, 2023

To handle this challenge, enterprises need to automate and streamline the onboarding and lifecycle of tool configurations in the software development processes, including aspects of observability, security, alerting, and remediation. Stay tuned for more examples and easy-to-adopt automations provided in our public Github project.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

FUN FACT : In this talk , Dikang Gu, a software engineer at Instagram core infra team has mentioned about how they use Cassandra to serve critical usecases, high scalability requirements, and some pain points. For example, one user is a close follower of Elon Musk while another user can be a close follower of Gordon Ramsay.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

For example, for titles where the source is 4K and high frame rate (HFR) such as “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” , we produce AV1 streams in 4K and HFR. For example, some streams have a peak bitrate close to the upper limit allowed by the spec.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This ranges from deploying virtual machines and configuring software to ensuring that software development operations are proceeding efficiently and reliably. Orchestration leverages DevOps tools that allow for rapid updates and releases, version control, and other best practices for software engineering.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Examples of zero-day vulnerabilities. For example, within a week of the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability, Microsoft reported more than 1.8 For example, within a week of the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability, Microsoft reported more than 1.8 million attack attempts , against? million attack attempts , against?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We sat together with Armin Ruech and Daniel Dyla, software engineers at Dynatrace and leaders within the OpenTelemetry community, to hear about their involvement with the second most active CNCF project. My name is Armin Ruech, I’m a Software Engineer at Dynatrace and I started as a software developer around 3.5

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Check out the following use cases to learn how to drive innovation from development to production efficiently and securely with platform engineering observability. Using Dynatrace, teams can directly access their synthetic monitors and drill down into locations where, for example, execution failed because of local or global outages.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Think about your past work experiences and prepare some examples of when you achieved something amazing, or had some tough challenges. If you want to practice, focus on medium-difficulty real-world problems you might encounter in a software engineering role. Be sure to have questions prepared to ask the interviewers.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

For software engineering teams, this demand means not only delivering new features faster but ensuring quality, performance, and scalability too. One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. Industry apps explosion. Here is the definition of this model: ?.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2020

All the data bound to hosts is analyzed by the Davis AI causation engine and made available on custom dashboards and events pages. Example 1: Gain visibility into your NVIDIA GPUs. One of our software engineers, Tomasz Gajger, has been involved in a research project related to GPU performance analysis.

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2023

This shift is leading more organizations to hire site reliability engineers to guarantee the reliability and resiliency of their services. How site reliability engineering affects organizations’ bottom line SRE applies the disciplines of software engineering to infrastructure management, both on-premises and in the cloud.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Causal AI—which brings AI-enabled actionable insights to IT operations—and a data lakehouse, such as Dynatrace Grail , can help break down silos among ITOps, DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, and business analytics teams. Grail is at the center of the Dynatrace open AI-powered platform.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If a user encounters an error page on a website, for example, it’s vital to trace the behavior to the original source of failure. To gain insight into these problems, software engineers typically deploy application instrumentation frameworks that provide insight into applications and code. AWS monitoring best practices.

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Strategic Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

To demonstrate this process, we will build a canvas for the following fictitious example (inspired by real examples from our consulting work): A large logistics company wants to expand into new verticals and integrate its offerings into an emerging open marketplace. They are targeting 3–5x revenue growth in the next 5 years.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

For example, Amazon Alexa extensions are implemented as AWS Lambda functions. For example, they’re highly dynamic and often short-lived, which makes it difficult to identify issues and find their root causes before they impact business revenue or customer experience. – Robert Trueman, Head of Software Engineering at CDL.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Samuel Setegne is a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Data Science and Engineering team.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As it often happens in software engineering projects, the project took longer than expected to finish, mostly because the problem of tracking and visualizing thousands of concurrent objects in real-time in a highly distributed environment is a surprisingly non-trivial problem (duh!). Example task-level plugin Try it at home!

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Previous posts have discussed partitioning, for example, a partitioned memory object [link] and how a latch maintains the desired access (exclusive, shared, …) [link]. For example: When ‘use database’ takes place the session acquires a shared lock on database. Bob Dorr – Principal Software Engineer SQL Server.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

For example, high-quality data and predictive AI enable causal AI to provide precise, continuous, and actionable insights in real time. But for organizations to maximize the business benefits of AI, they need to continuously evaluate their data to ensure it’s high-quality data, which is the bedrock of solid decision making.

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Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A site reliability engineer, or SRE, is a role that that encompasses aspects of both software engineering and operations/infrastructure. The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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High Scalability

JULY 13, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a software operations methodology that enables organizations to create highly reliable and scalable applications. SRE applies software engineering principles to operations and infrastructure processes. Rather than a technology, DevOps is a tactical approach to application development.

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Tasktop

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Integrating test management tools such as Micro Focus ALM (HP ALM) , Tricentis Tosca , or QASymphony with Jira improves alignment between software engineers and test engineers. Changes made to the defects’ status in Jira are visible to the QA engineer in test management.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

Practical advice for software engineers and security consultants. As a software security evaluator and a one-time engineer, I can confirm what the daily security breaches are telling us: software engineers and architects regularly fail at building in sufficient security and privacy.

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