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Ensuring the Successful Launch of Ads on Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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

The Netflix TechBlog

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 is particularly important for complex APIs that have many high cardinality inputs.

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Building High-Quality Software

DZone

nn> MonitoringnnWe (humans) are terrible at imagining all possible permutations of the system with billions and billions of possible states. You may think that you know how the system works. You may think that you know how the system works. In the best case, you know only how the system was designed to work. A side note.

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Service level objectives: 5 SLOs to get started

Dynatrace

Certain SLOs can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. Response time Response time refers to the total time it takes for a system to process a request or complete an operation.

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Interpreting A/B test results: false negatives and power

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Service level objective examples: 5 SLO examples for faster, more reliable apps

Dynatrace

Certain service-level objective examples can help organizations get started on measuring and delivering metrics that matter. It represents the percentage of time a system or service is expected to be accessible and functioning correctly. This SLO enables a smooth and uninterrupted exercise-tracking experience.

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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

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.