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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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What the SEC cybersecurity disclosure mandate means for application security

Dynatrace

Do material incidents on “third-party systems” require disclosure? The mandate explains why this is the case: “A reasonable investor would [not] view a significant breach of a registrant’s data as immaterial merely because the data were housed on a third-party system ….

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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. In the best case, you know only how the system was designed to work. You may think that you know how the system works.

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Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software

The Morning Paper

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in large system software , Lou et al., Partial failures ( gray failures ) occur when some but not all of the functionalities of a system are broken. Here are the key findings: Partial failures appear throughout the release history of each system, 54% within the last three years.

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Efficient SLO event integration powers successful AIOps

Dynatrace

From my experience, a month of monitoring is the optimal duration to gain statistically significant insights into “how my entity behaves with the configured SLO.” 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.

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DynaWine: Transform faster with automation and AI

Dynatrace

Even the wine industry heavily utilizes monitoring, automation, and AI to produce the drink we all love. As a company that’s ethos is based on a points-based system for health, by doing exercise and being rewarded with vouchers such as cinema tickets, the pandemic made both impossible tasks to do.

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