The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

The three strategies we will discuss today are AB Testing , Replay Testing, and Sticky Canaries. So, we relied on higher-level metrics-based testing: AB Testing and Sticky Canaries. Let’s discuss the three testing strategies in further detail. To launch Phase 2 safely, we used Replay Testing and Sticky Canaries.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2024

For instance, consider how fine-tuned failure rate detection can provide insights for comprehensive understanding. Please refer to How to fine-tune failure detection (dynatrace.com) for further information. Data Explorer “test your Metric Expression” for info result coming from the above metric.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We present a systematic overview of the unexpected streaming behaviors together with a set of model-based and data-driven anomaly detection strategies to identify them. For the one-class as well as binary anomaly detection task, such metrics are accuracy, precision, recall, f0.5,

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. Encoding Technologies teamed up with Performance Engineering to analyze the CPU usage pattern of AV1 encoding and based on our findings, Performance Engineering recommended an improved CPU scheduling strategy. Stay tuned!

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

End-to-end observability starts with tracking logs, metrics, and traces of all the components, providing a better understanding of service relationships and application dependencies. This comprehensive view helps teams gain an initial understanding of a monolithic application so they can develop a migration strategy.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2022

From a cost perspective, internal customers waste valuable time sending tickets to operations teams asking for metrics, logs, and traces to be enabled. The foundation of this flexibility is the Dynatrace Operator ¹ and its new Cloud Native Full Stack injection deployment strategy. This approach is costly and error prone.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Dynatrace is fully committed to the OpenTelemetry community and to the seamless integration of OpenTelemetry data , including ingestion of custom metrics , into the Dynatrace open analytics platform. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements around OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. Please share your feedback with us at Dynatrace Answers.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2022

Although many companies adopt solutions such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana as part of their observability strategy, they often confront a common data analysis problem: data silos. For example, OpenTelemetry for instrumenting microservices, Fluentd for collecting logs, and Prometheus for collecting metrics. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Full integration with existing Dynatrace capabilities for AWS Lambda (for example, metric ingestion via AWS Cloud Watch). Fully integrated with existing Dynatrace capabilities for AWS Lambda, including metric ingestion via AWS Cloud Watch. So please stay tuned! Improved mapping and topology detection.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. These include alert fatigue, lack of context, and absence of strategy. Get ready for actionable insights that balance technical depth with practical advice.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

These are summarized below: Instead of relying on other objective metrics, such as PSNR†, VMAF is employed to guide optimization decisions. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters. These changes also lead to an improvement in Quality-of-Experience (QoE) metrics that affect the end user experience, such as play delays (i.e.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Organizations that have achieved SRE maturity have a better handle on the state of their infrastructure, the ability to tie reliability metrics more tightly to business objectives, and the means to ensure a consistent and responsive customer experience. Design, implement, and tune effective SLOs.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 16, 2021

Automatically collect and evaluate business, service, and architectural indicator metrics to promote or roll back deployments. Below is an example workflow from this repo for a basic deployment strategy: The GitHub workflow first sets the Azure cluster credentials using the set context Action. SLO validation – ?Automatically

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Scalegrid

MARCH 4, 2019

We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. Other category, including migrations, queries, comparing, tuning, and replication.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Even within Netflix, we have many groups that do some form of data analysis, including business strategy and consumer insights. The Analyst is motivated by delivering metrics, findings, or dashboards that drive analytical insights and business decisions. or what to call the people responsible for the work. and technical excellence ??.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Any time you run a test with WebPageTest, you’ll get this table of different milestones and metrics. Higher variance means a less stable metric across pages. I can see from the screenshot above that TTFB is my most stable metrics—no one page appears to have particularly expensive database queries or API calls on the back-end.

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Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2020

While Dynatrace provides software intelligence to accelerate your company’s digital transformation, web analytics tools like Adobe Analytics help you deeply understand your user journeys, segmentation, behavior, and strategic business metrics such as revenue, orders, and conversion goals. Alert based on your new metric.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2019

Observability is divided into three major verticals—metrics, logs, and distributed traces—the so-called three pillars of observability. 1) Metrics. As a full-stack monitoring platform, Dynatrace collects a huge number of metrics for each OneAgent-monitored host in your environment. Dynatrace news. 2) Distributed traces.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In particular, the VMAF metric lies at the core of improving the Netflix member’s streaming video quality. The request provides the source and the derivative whose quality is to be computed and requests that the VQS provides quality scores using VMAF, PSNR and SSIM as quality metrics. Assembly for two of the metrics (e.g.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2021

A single pane of glass to view trace information along with AWS CloudWatch metrics. See your AWS serverless workloads in full context with customer experience and business outcome metrics. extension provides insights into traces and metrics from each monitored Lambda function. trace information along with AWS CloudWatch metrics.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications. Today, most thought-leaders break down Observability into three pillars; metrics, distributed traces and logs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Through identifying the components that contribute to a successful artwork — one that leads a member to choose and watch it — we can give our creative team data-driven insights to incorporate into their creative strategy, and help in their selection of which artwork to feature. For the estimation of the nuisance functions (i.e.,

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Label-based access control is a security mechanism that allows companies to control who can access specific metrics based on their labels. To simplify access management : Label-based access control can simplify access management by allowing companies to assign labels to metrics. Which approach should I use when assigning roles?

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Develop strategies for efficiently managing a surge in energy production by utilizing renewable energy resources to their fullest extent while ensuring grid stability and reducing the need for grid-supplied energy. AWS speakers: Wafae Bakkali, Isha Dua

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Dynatrace

JULY 8, 2020

That’s another example where monitoring is of tremendous help as it provides the current resource consumption picture and help to continuously fine tune those settings. . For that, on top of the resource usage metrics, you need to monitor cluster events and object state metrics. . Node and w orkload health .

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing. In pursuit of this goal, we outlined following storage optimization strategies: Use cheaper Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes instead of SSD instance stores in EC2.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In order to accomplish this, one of the key strategies many organizations utilize is an open source Kubernetes environment, which helps build, deliver, and scale containerized Cloud Native applications. Today, most thought-leaders break down Observability into three pillars; metrics, distributed traces and logs.

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Tasktop

MAY 24, 2021

Citing the Navy’s “leadership factory”, he encouraged attendees to focus on tuning a system for building leaders, to give them the responsibility and ownership to hone their skills and come back “stronger” from missions. How do we give the software delivery organization a louder voice in business strategy? Register today .

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Data Quality Data Mesh provides metrics and dashboards at both the processor and pipeline level for operational observability. This strategy has increased the Studio Tech Solutions team performance and stability. Please stay tuned! A daily process ranks the records by timestamp to generate a data frame of compacted records.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2019

The amount of information shown is tuned based on the chart size. Small charts providing a quick overview of trends in a dashboard, while larger sizes give you a lot more detail and metrics. This is a great strategy that can help make your performance budgets visible and build a performance culture in your organisation.

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Edge Perspectives

AUGUST 5, 2019

But to really scale learning, we’re going to need to adopt a very different approach to strategy – the “zoom out, zoom in” approach. Institutions have increasingly moved to reactive forms of strategy where the key goal is to sense and respond as quickly as possible to what is happening at the moment. What can help them do that?

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The need for backfilling could be due to a variety of factors, e.g. (1) upstream data sets got repopulated due to changes in business logic of its data pipeline, (2) business logic was changed in a data pipeline, (3) anew metric was created that needs to be populated for historical time ranges, (4) historical data was found missing, etc.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

How to pioneer new metrics and create a culture of performance. This book shares guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy. Data-driven strategies and battle tested techniques will make you a master of mobile-and improve your non-mobile design, too! Time is Money.

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The Morning Paper

JULY 16, 2019

After training, each model is evaluated by taking 50 different random seeds and then evaluating the representation for each seed using the considered metrics. Disentanglement metrics mostly agree. Luck and tuning. The library used to train and evaluate these models, disentanglement_lib has been made available at [link].

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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. Portability.

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