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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the methods we used to ensure a successful launch, including: How we tested the system Netflix technologies involved Best practices we developed Realistic Test Traffic Netflix traffic ebbs and flows throughout the day in a sinusoidal pattern. Basic with ads was launched worldwide on November 3rd.

Traffic

Traffic Best Practices Systems Testing

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Behind the scenes, a myriad of systems and services are involved in orchestrating the product experience. These backend systems are consistently being evolved and optimized to meet and exceed customer and product expectations. This blog series will examine the tools, techniques, and strategies we have utilized to achieve this goal.

Traffic

Traffic Latency Tuning Systems

Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We then used simple thought exercises based on flipping coins to build intuition around false positives and related concepts such as statistical significance, p-values, and confidence intervals. the difference in metric values between Groups A and B?—?the The variability of the metric in the underlying population. Sample size.

Testing

Testing Latency Metrics Innovation

Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

However, it’s essential to exercise caution: Limit the quantity of SLOs while ensuring they are well-defined and aligned with business and functional objectives. Data Explorer “test your Metric Expression” for info result coming from the above metric. In other words, where the application code resides.

Efficiency

Efficiency Traffic Tuning Metrics

Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. To prepare ourselves for a big change in the tech stack of our endpoint, we decided to track metrics around the time taken to respond to queries.

Latency

Latency Cache Java Traffic

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

In this post, we compare ScaleGrid’s Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) plan vs. the standard Dedicated Hosting model to help you determine the best strategy for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis™ and MongoDB® database deployment. The availability of a computer system is the percentage of time its services are up during a period of time.

Cloud

Cloud Azure AWS Database

Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I recently joined two industry veterans and Dynatrace partners, Syed Husain of Orasi and Paul Bruce of Neotys as panelists to discuss how performance engineering and test strategies have evolved as it pertains to customer experience. This blog summarizes our great conversation for the posed questions.

Strategy

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring

Seven benefits of AIOps to transform your business operations

Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

Such insights include whether the system can effectively collect, analyze, and report this data. But AIOps also improves metrics that matter to the bottom line. With greater visibility into systems’ states and a single source of analytical truth, teams can collaborate more efficiently. The ability to preempt outages.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Strategy

Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. RUM gathers information on a variety of performance metrics. RUM is ideally suited to provide real metrics from real users navigating a site or application. Performance testing based on variable metrics (i.e., What is real user monitoring? The bottom line?

Best Practices

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic

MySQL Capacity Planning

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

As such, one of the more common questions I get from my clients is whether or not their system will be able to endure an anticipated load increase. The solution is proactive monitoring using time-lapse metrics monitoring like what you would get with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM).

Traffic

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database

Market Power Increases Exponentially with IT Velocity

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

A basic concept of wind energy systems, it is increasingly relevant in commercial building architecture: specifically, if wind velocity can be increased through building design, the potential power that a building can derive from wind energy is considerably greater. In the aggregate, power is abstract in this definition.

Government

Government Energy Innovation Strategy

SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. .

Healthcare

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation

Tasktop Viz launch – DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 – Day Two Recap

Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. He had a strategy. We identified 671 duplicate items between systems, saving 4,750 hours of unnecessary work.

DevOps

DevOps Education Innovation Metrics

What is APM?

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) is the practice of tracking key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. Dynatrace news. Application monitoring.

Monitoring

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence

SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100 companies now practicing value stream management (VSM ) in their software portfolios have revealed an acute resource scarcity in QA. Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. .

Healthcare

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation

Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Recall that Cupertino manages the actual work of Safari engineers through Apple-internal systems (previously named "Radar" ), making public bug reports a sort of parallel track; once an issue is imported from a public bug to a private tracker, it's more likely to get developer attention. No, this was a change in strategy.

Energy

Energy Games Engineering Design

Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware

Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A resilient system continues to operate successfully in the presence of failures. There are many possible failure modes, and each exercises a different aspect of resilience. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable. This discussion focuses on hardware, software and operational failure modes.

Latency

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware

The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

This post addresses some of the opinions around database benchmarking and gives the top 5 reasons why industry standard benchmarking is important and should be an essential foundation of your database engineering strategy. Shareability.

Benchmarking

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability

MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. MezzFS can be configured to cache objects on the local disk. Regional caching? —?Netflix

Media

Media Storage Processing Cache

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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

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Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power

Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

Seven benefits of AIOps to transform your business operations

Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

MySQL Capacity Planning

Market Power Increases Exponentially with IT Velocity

SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

Tasktop Viz launch – DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 – Day Two Recap

What is APM?

SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

Safari 16.4 Is An Admission

Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

Failure Modes and Continuous Resilience

The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

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