The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2019

The most important value of hack days is that they support a culture of innovation. By Abi Seshadri and Rachel Rivera You can also check out highlights from our past events: November 2018 , March 2018 , August 2017 , January 2017 , May 2016 , November 2015 , March 2015 , February 2014 & August 2014.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 13, 2022

To be recognized as a Leader in this Magic Quadrant 12 out of 12 times, I believe, is a testament to our durable innovation, ability to anticipate the market, and consistent delivery of customer value in a sea of change.” Dynatrace has accelerated innovation and boosted the growth of our organization. Everything is automated.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

We rolled out encoding innovations such as per-title and per-shot optimizations, which provided significant quality-of-experience (QoE) improvement to Netflix members. From Reloaded to Cosmos Reloaded Starting in 2014, we developed and operated the video processing pipeline on our third-generation platform Reloaded. 264, AV1, etc.).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Within every industry, organizations are accelerating efforts to modernize IT capabilities that increase agility, reduce complexity, and foster innovation. Docker Swarm First introduced in 2014 by Docker, Docker Swarm is an orchestration engine that popularized the use of containers with developers.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014, it ushered in a new era of serverless computing. Enable autonomous operations, boost innovation, and offer new modes of customer engagement by automating everything. But most of that budget goes toward running the business—not software innovation. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

Dynatrace enables our customers to tame cloud complexity, speed innovation, and deliver better business outcomes through BizDevSecOps collaboration. Whether it’s the speed and quality of innovation for IT, automation and efficiency for DevOps, or enhancement and consistency of user experiences, Dynatrace makes it easy.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With a skeleton staff of 7 on a on 24×7 schedule, we increased the number releases from 2 to 26 per year and reduced production bugs by 93% since 2014. The goal of Cloud Automation is for development teams to build better software faster and operations to automate mundane repetitive tasks and focus on innovation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The most important value of our Hack Days is that they support a culture of innovation. The goal is simple: experiment with new ideas/technologies, engage with colleagues across different disciplines, and have fun! We know even the silliest idea can spur something more. 2018 Netflix Hack Day?

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The most important value of our Hack Days is that they support a culture of innovation. The goal is simple: experiment with new ideas/technologies, engage with colleagues across different disciplines, and have fun! We know even the silliest idea can spur something more. 2018 Netflix Hack Day?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We also work with some of Africa's fastest growing startups such as Aerobotics, Apex Innovations, Asoriba, Custos Media, EMS Invirotel, Entersekt, HealthQ, JUMO, Luno, Mukuru, PayGate, Parcel Ninja, Simfy Africa, Zapper, Zanibal, and Zoona. Since it launched in 2014, more than 9 million people have saved or borrowed on the JUMO platform.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As the pace of digital transformation continues to accelerate, an APM solution should leverage the full range of technological innovations available and help you to future-proof your business. Dynatrace was spun off from Compuware following the privatization of Compuware in December 2014. The Dynatrace approach: APM and beyond.

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Sutter's Mill

JUNE 7, 2024

The report cites this class of vulnerability as a common theme in the some of the most infamous cyber events, such as the Morris worm of 1988, the Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014, and the Blastpass exploit of 2023. His interests range from software supply chain security to open source innovation.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

2014: Java in Flames Broken Java Stacks (2014) When I joined Netflix in 2014, I found Java's lack of frame pointer support broke all application stacks (pictured in my 2014 Surge talk on the right). Polar Signals did some interesting work using an eBPF walker to reduce the overhead, but.Java.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

Indeed, according to recent research , 34% of surveyed CIOs reported that they must sacrifice code security to meet the demand for rapid innovation cycles. Recent examples include the Heartbleed vulnerability in 2014, the attacks on Apache Struts in 2017, and Log4Shell in 2021. Why is cloud application security so critical?

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We are also enabling some of the Nordics' most successful startups and gaming companies, such as: Bambora, Evolution Gaming, Hemnet, iZettle, KRY, LEO Innovation Lab, Lingit, Lunar Way, Mapillary, Mathem, Mojang, Paradox Interactive, Quinyx, Rovio, Supercell, Tidal, Trustpilot, Tink, and Vivino. Public sector.

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Dynatrace

MAY 7, 2019

It was around 2011 that PaaS software projects started as open instead of closed – think of OpenShift (2011), Cloud Foundry (2011), or Kubernetes (2014). Today, these platforms are literally the source of innovation in every area of technology, changing the way enterprises are developing their internal and external services.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

For a more recent example, I wrote cachestat(8) while on vacation in 2014 for use on the Netflix cloud, which was a mix of Linux 3.2 Talk to us, try it out, innovate. In a previous blog post, [An Unbelievable Demo], I talked about how something similar happened many years ago where old tracing tool versions were used without updates.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Or you can plugin, hang out, get some work done, and stick around for evening presentations by innovative startups and community experts. Customer Speaking Events and Evening Happy Hours: Innovative Bay Area startups share the technical and business journeys they undertook as their ideas came to life. Where: The AWS Pop-up Loft.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 17, 2019

Netflix headquarters circa 2014. The encoder speed helps innovation, as it is faster to run experiments. by Andrey Norkin, Joel Sole, Kyle Swanson, Mariana Afonso, Anush Moorthy, Anne Aaron Netflix Headquarters, Winchester Circle. It’s a nice building with good architecture!

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O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Percona

AUGUST 4, 2023

Things were starting to significantly diverge back in 2014 when MariaDB 10 was released. Getting its own versions tracked allowed MariaDB to innovate at its own (faster) pace without confusing users who, because of shared roots, expected some kind of compatibility for MySQL and MariaDB of the same version. and MySQL 5.5. operates now).

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Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

Since Kubernetes emerged in 2014, it has become a popular solution for scaling, managing, and automating the deployments of containerized applications in distributed environments. With apps growing larger and more complex by the day, IT teams will require tools to help manage these deployments.

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Speed Curve

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

The most helpful innovation we made is to highlight the critical blocking stylesheets and synchronous scripts in our waterfall charts. For more on what the critical rendering path is, why it matters so much and how to optimize asset delivery to ensure you don't block it IIya Grigorik gave a great overview of the topic at Velocity Conf 2014.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Our department director Coburn Watson Walking the tightrope: Balancing Innovation, Reliability, Security, and Efficiency.

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MachMetrics

JUNE 16, 2020

Google made SSL use a ranking factor way back in 2014, and since Chrome 68, a “Not Secure” warning appears next to the URL of sites that aren’t using HTTPS. Just as advancements in the last decade have overcome the additional handshakes associated with HTTPS, the next decade will see incredible innovation in this space.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 30, 2017

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Not a lot has changed with these tunables since my [2014] talk. Our department director Coburn Watson Walking the tightrope: Balancing Innovation, Reliability, Security, and Efficiency.

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Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

I met Steve at the first O'Reilly Velocity Conference in the EU in 2011, Cliff gave the first tutorial at my first Velocity in the US, and I was fascinated by Tammy ’s neuroscience-based talk in 2014. After all, performance is about people.). While I worked for a competitor, my exposure to SpeedCurve was limited.

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Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Most of the CMS vendors dodge questions of evolution by talking about incremental innovation primarily focused on customer experience (CX) such as analytics and personalisation. There is hardly any innovation from traditional CMS vendors. Circa 2014, I was working with a big Japanese automotive brand in Australia.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2022

I’d first come across this argument in a WSJ article in 2014, and, having lived through too many credit cycles, it took me some time to warm up to it. That said, tech is the driver of labor productivity, product reach and distribution, and a key source of corporate innovation.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 13, 2019

I look for exciting page layouts, inspiring typography, and innovative ways to combine text with images. Something needs to stand out in those first few seconds for me to look closer, be it an exciting page layout, an inspiring typographic treatment, or an innovative combination of images with text. Say Hello To Skinny Columns.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

After a year or so, and a re-organization, eBay Research labs was formed by Eric Billingsley, and I joined to help recruit the team, including a good friend from Sun, Paul Strong , and build out the innovation programs. It was a great opportunity to explore new technologies and broaden my experience.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The ecosystem strategy takes this even further, combining unrelated capabilities under one roof (eBay buying Skype in 2005, SAP developing HANA in 2010, Facebook buying Oculus in 2014), often justifiable if only because digital commerce is still in its infancy and nobody is really sure what's going to work and what's not.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

This situation was so bad that Microsoft offered a 25% discount on the cost of SQL Server processor core licenses for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014, if you ran on qualifying AMD Opteron processors with six or more cores. Intel became complacent over the past ten years, and ended up opening up a large opportunity for AMD.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

As an extreme example, I wrote cachestat(8) while on vacation in 2014 for use on the Netflix cloud, which was a mix of Linux 3.2 Talk to us, try it out, innovate. If you're unlucky, the patch applies but corrupts some things in a subtle way that you don't notice until later. It depends on the tool. at the time.

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Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Preact lacks innovation and essentially mimics React. is a progressive JavaScript framework created by Even You in 2014. Preact only permits you to use ES6 class and stateless elements. Preact doesn’t care about the React propTypes. The community size is small, hence immediate support might be unavailable at times. Preact Vs. React.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Simchi-Levi, 2014. Fano, 2002. Johnson, B.H.A. Kleinberg, C. Papadimitriou, P.

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