The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Training examples were produced between 2016 and 2019, in 13 countries, with 60% of the titles originating in the USA. Results We evaluated our models on four open datasets comprising audio data from TV programs, YouTube clips and various content such as concert, radio broadcasts, and low-fidelity folk music.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

The CVE Program, which publishes vulnerabilities as they become known, reported a 25% increase in vulnerabilities between 2021 and 2022. As digital transformation escalates, vulnerabilities are increasing as well, by more than 290% since 2016. As organizations develop new applications, vulnerabilities will continue to emerge.

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Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail 246

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Syscall count by program bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. Internally, bpftrace uses a lex/yacc parser to convert programs to AST, then llvm IR actions, then BPF. Pages paged in by process bpftrace -e 'software:major-faults:1 { @[comm] = count(); }'.

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C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

O'Reilly Software

AUGUST 23, 2018

Recently, we dove into our assessment data to discover—and quantify —trends in software development, each time comparing 2016 to 2017. Trend 1: The percentage of teams that do not automate deployment shrank from 26% in 2016 to 11% in 2017. Trend 4: More teams are enforcing full quality control (31% in 2017, up from 23% in 2016).

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Software Software Development Code 73

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode]. Miller (networking maintainer) recently asked if I still used my "noisy typewriter", which I had turned on a little too loud during a [LISA 2016] demo. bpftrace became even more powerful on Linux 5.3, On the topic of tracing keystrokes, David S.

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C++ Education Java AWS 85

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Programming. Programming API using a Load Testing Tool. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

One of my favorite parts of the week is being able to host three startup-focused sessions Thursday afternoon: The Startup Scene in 2016: a Visionary Panel [Thursday, 2:45PM].

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AWS Government Innovation Programming 87

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., [root@ip-172-31-128-38 share]# cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld@.service See the # GNU General Public License, version 2.0,

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Programming Servers Database Open Source 98

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix. That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network. Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database?

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Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. The second platform is a managed IoT cloud with customer-facing applications and data management, which went live in 2016.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Randon ASCII

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In September of 2016 we started noticing random failures when building Chrome – 3 out of 200 builds of Chrome failed when protoc.exe, one of the executables that is part of the build, crashed with an access violation. The next step was a custom C++ program that opened the just-linked exe and called FlushFileBuffers on it.

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Programming Hardware Cache Code 79

Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The application world began to move forward after Google announced Kotlin as the new programming language for Android Apps at the 2017 I/O conference. Because Google intends to change the platform to Kotlin, many programmers have chosen Kotlin for Android app development and programming. in 2016 after five years of existence.

Development 52

Development Java Programming Google 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode]. Miller (networking maintainer) recently asked if I still used my "noisy typewriter," which I had turned on a little too loud during a [LISA 2016] demo. bpftrace became even more powerful on Linux 5.3, On the topic of tracing keystrokes, David S.

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Starting with other interfaces is like writing your first Java program in [JVM bytecode]. Miller (networking maintainer) recently asked if I still used my "noisy typewriter," which I had turned on a little too loud during a [LISA 2016] demo. bpftrace became even more powerful on Linux 5.3, On the topic of tracing keystrokes, David S.

C++ 52

C++ Education Java AWS 52

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. It would be published as separate posts: – Introduction (a short teaser).

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Engineering 100

Testsigma

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2016, Google made it clear that since mobile traffic is more than all else, mobile-friendly websites will be prioritised when a user searches on mobile. With AI technology, the tester can write the test cases in the English language that can be translated into programming language by the tool.

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Artificial Intelligence IoT Software Software 89

SQL Server According to Bob

JULY 13, 2016

Today we are introducing the new Basic Installer experience for SQL Server 2016 Express , SQL Server 2016 Developer , and SQL Server 2016 Evaluation Editions. We actually launched this functionality for SQL Server 2016 Express Edition when SQL Server 2016 RTM was announced but didn’t really promote this.

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SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Back in June, Bob Dorr gave you the thinking behind why SQL Server 2016 It Just Runs Faster due to changes in our SQL Server and NUMA configurations. Bob blogged about a new SQL Server 2016 feature called Auto Soft NUMA. Let’s actually use the calculator program in Windows 10 to look at this a different way.

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Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. The Art of SEO.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

In 2016, Apache Spark introduced Structured Streaming , a new streaming engine based on the SparkSQL abstractions and runtime optimizations. The low-level streaming implementations of the mentioned engines require specialized knowledge in order to program new applications. In the same year, Apache Flink announced streaming SQL support.

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Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time of the last Confluence run, the gap had stretched to nearly 1000 APIs, doubling since 2016. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs. Web Serial, Web Bluetooth, and Web USB enable educational programming tools to help students learn to program physical devices, including LEGO.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. Many years later I re-wrote the simulator in Go and had some more fun with the concepts at Gophercon 2016.

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Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

Randon ASCII

JANUARY 22, 2017

In August of 2016 Chrome switched meta-build systems, from gyp to gn. Doing this investigation has reminded me that the behavior of linkers is best described by chaos theory – the details of their behavior defy prediction by simple heuristics, and the results can be changed dramatically by tiny butterflies code changes.

C++ 56

C++ Code Processing Systems 56

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I'm now program co-chair for SREcon 2023 APAC, and our 2023 conference is June 14-16 in Singapore. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege. The call for participation ends on March 2nd 23:59 SGT!

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

” Quality assurance (QA) is defined as: “A program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.” — “ Quality assurance ,” Merriam-Webster. Elie Sloïm — 2016) ( Large preview ).

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Automotive Website Social Media Design 144

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Syscall count by program bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. Internally, bpftrace uses a lex/yacc parser to convert programs to AST, then llvm IR actions, then BPF. Pages paged in by process bpftrace -e 'software:major-faults:1 { @[comm] = count(); }'.

C++ 40

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 40

Testsigma

APRIL 27, 2020

One of the most common reasons for implementation failure is due to programming defects. According to Puppet’s 2016 State of DevOps Report , organizations can improve their deployment frequency by two hundred times with DevOps and reduce change failure rates by three times. Reduced Implementation Failure. Greater Customer Satisfaction.

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Tasktop

JUNE 22, 2021

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: The Tasktop Fitness Program . Employees are entitled to a generous fitness allowance to be put towards eligible expenses on programs or equipment that promote physical fitness, such as gym memberships, fitness classes, sports, and fitness clubs. The company is dedicated to encouraging physical fitness.

Programming 52

Programming Education DevOps Software 52

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As you may recall, back in SQL Server 2016 SP1, they opened up all of the programming surface features to all editions, and many (but certainly not all) of the performance and availability features. I wrote about this in a post entitled, " A Big Deal : SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1."

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Servers Hardware Database Availability 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Instead, this article focuses on the strictest common criteria to ensure broad installability as of late 2016. In late 2016, the following phones & testing settings strike a decent balance for their markets: North America & Europe: Motorola G4. ~$200 Similarly, per-browser criteria are not cataloged.

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Mobile Network Education Design 54

Tasktop

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Back in 2016, Neelan Choksi (Tasktop President & COO) was encouraging me to write a book summarizing my learnings from the hundreds of customer meetings I had done in the previous year. Or the more personal feeling of the impact on an individual. I was touched by her story of being the first person color in the IT department at Xerox.

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DevOps Software Architecture Open Source Architecture 45

Nick Desaulniers

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Now that we have our static library, we can statically link it to our program and see the resulting symbols. 15828: initialize program: /a.out 15828: transferring control: /a.out x y 15828: calling fini: /a.out [ 0 ]. For more information, you should read Michael Kerrisk’s excellent book The Linux Programming Interface.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

The slightly newer Intel Xeon E5-26xx v4 (Broadwell) series which was introduced in Q1 of 2016, increased that to 2400MHz. The older Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3 (Haswell) series which was introduced in Q3 of 2014, had a maximum memory bandwidth of 2133MHz. They also only have 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes per processor.

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Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

We saw those feedback loops in 2016, we’ve been seeing them ever since, and we will certainly see them used in 2020. Attacks on social networks can fly under the radar as “free speech,” even when the speaker is a bot that’s been programmed to manipulate a feedback loop. Don’t feed the trolls.

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Social Media Media Network Energy 56

Alex Russell

MARCH 31, 2022

Late in the drafting of this post, it was pointed out to me by Frederik Braun that Brad Hill had considered the downsides of a site-populated SRI addressable cache back in 2016. Their trust in browsers comes from the expectation that the surface they program to will not change, particularly regarding existing and deployed code.

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Cache Government Traffic Network 89

John McCalpin

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

In the latest (October 2016) revision of Intel’s Instruction Extensions Programming Reference , Intel has disclosed a fairly dramatic departure from these “traditional” approaches. Does anyone else see the introduction of “vector+SIMD” instructions as an important precedent?

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