The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

In the dynamic world of technology, its tempting to leap into problem-solving mode. To address this, we introduced the term Title Health, a concept designed to help us communicate effectively and capture the nuances of maintaining each titles visibility and performance. What is the architecture of the systems involved?

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2019

Service-Oriented Architecture Overview. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern in computer software design in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Simplified architecture of a streaming preparation pipeline A key feature that our members rightfully deserve when playing audio, video, and timed text is synchronization. If you want to explore another facet of the team’s work, have a look at the other award-winning technology, TTML , that we use for our Japanese subtitles.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, it's common for applications to migrate to the cloud to embrace the microservice architecture. While this architectural approach offers scalability, reusability, and adaptability, it also presents a unique challenge: effectively managing communication between these microservices.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Transforming an application from monolith to microservices-based architecture can be daunting, and knowing where to start can be difficult. Unsurprisingly, organizations are breaking away from monolithic architectures and moving toward event-driven microservices. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

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DZone

JUNE 25, 2024

Scalable software architectures are the backbone of efficient and flexible production lines, enabling manufacturers to meet the increasing demands for innovative display technologies. As display manufacturing continues to evolve, the demand for scalable software solutions to support automation has become more critical than ever.

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Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

We’re delighted to share that IBM and Dynatrace have joined forces to bring the Dynatrace Operator, along with the comprehensive capabilities of the Dynatrace platform, to Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Power architecture (ppc64le). Captures metrics, traces, logs, and other telemetry data in context.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies. Our approach to NN-based video downscaling The deep downscaler is a neural network architecture designed to improve the end-to-end video quality by learning a higher-quality video downscaler. For your eyes only!

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

DevSecOps initiatives aren’t rooted in a specific technology. This includes custom, built-in-house apps designed for a single, specific purpose, API-driven connections that bridge the gap between legacy systems and new services, and innovative apps that leverage open-source code to streamline processes. What is DevSecOps?

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Motivation With the rapid growth in Netflix member base and the increasing complexity of our systems, our architecture has evolved into an asynchronous one that enables both online and offline computation. Architecture As shown in the diagram above, the RENO service can be broken down into the following components.

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Simform

JULY 26, 2021

Frontend architecture comprises a bunch of practices and tools that upgrades your application’s code quality. The post How to Re-evaluate Your Frontend Architecture and Improve its Design? appeared first on Insights on Latest Technologies - Simform Blog.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2021

How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap. At some point, though, we need to sit down with clients and give them a sometimes sobering reality: software development without a business technology roadmap can be a lot like driving aimlessly from point A to point Z.

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ACM Sigarch

APRIL 2, 2025

To create a CPU core that can execute a large number of instructions in parallel, it is necessary to improve both the architecturewhich includes the overall CPU design and the instruction set architecture (ISA) designand the microarchitecture, which refers to the hardware design that optimizes instruction execution.

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Simform

JULY 23, 2021

Design systems have turned out to be a boon for such teams as they lend coherency to user experiences across frontends. In this article, you'll learn about the variations of design systems employed by organizations worldwide and their specific characteristics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Every VFX studio has a slightly different architecture and workflow, and a one-size-fits-all solution often isn’t enough to bridge the gap. Cloud technology has introduced new ways for studios and artists across the globe to create incredible content,” said Antony Passemard, general manager of Creative Tools at AWS. “We

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By Xiaomei Liu , Rosanna Lee , Cyril Concolato Introduction Behind the scenes of the beloved Netflix streaming service and content, there are many technology innovations in media processing. Our previous tech blog Packaging award-winning shows with award-winning technology detailed our packaging technology deployed on the streaming side.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As dynamic systems architectures increase in complexity and scale, IT teams face mounting pressure to track and respond to conditions and issues across their multi-cloud environments. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed. Dynatrace news. Benefits of observability.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As organizations plan, migrate, transform, and operate their workloads on AWS, it’s vital that they follow a consistent approach to evaluating both the on-premises architecture and the upcoming design for cloud-based architecture. Fully conceptualizing capacity requirements. through our AWS integrations and monitoring support.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As part of the Cloud – Native Container Services report, ISG designed the Cloud-Native Observability Quadrant to help organizations select the best observability solution for cloud-native environments that use Kubernetes, service mesh, microservices, and serverless architectures. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 24, 2024

As we did with IBM Power , we’re delighted to share that IBM and Dynatrace have joined forces to bring the Dynatrace Operator, along with the comprehensive capabilities of the Dynatrace platform, to Red Hat OpenShift on the IBM Z and LinuxONE architecture (s390x). Dynatrace is designed to scale easily across the entire Kubernetes stack.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

These technologies are poorly suited to address the needs of modern enterprises—getting real value from data beyond isolated metrics. Grail architectural basics. The aforementioned principles have, of course, a major impact on the overall architecture. It’s based on cloud-native architecture and built for the cloud.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2022

To adapt, many are turning to AIOps and other automation technologies to solve the complex issues that accompany cloud-native architecture. As organizations adopt cloud-native technologies, complexity increases. A measured approach to adding new technology to your stack, such as containerizing applications.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. This is simply not possible with conventional architectures. Data management.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. Inspired Design Decisions With Bradbury Thompson: The Art Of Graphic Design. I learned how to channel my often rebellious attitude to conventional design thinking to develop novel solutions to often everyday design problems.

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Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

But as IT teams increasingly design and manage cloud-native technologies, the tasks IT pros need to accomplish are equally variable and complex. By sensing, thinking, and acting, these technologies can complete tasks automatically. Dynatrace news. The sense-think-act model for AIOps and observability. Sense’ with observability.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

As more organizations adopt generative AI and cloud-native technologies, IT teams confront more challenges with securing their high-performing cloud applications in the face of expanding attack surfaces. But only 21% said their organizations have established policies governing employees’ use of generative AI technologies.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). An AMET is a type of architecture enabling team that coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

It requires specialized talent, a new technology stack to manage and deploy models, an ample budget for rising compute costs, and end-to-end security. Figure 1: Sample RAG architecture While this approach significantly improves the response quality of GenAI applications, it also introduces new challenges.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2022

Technology that helps teams securely regain control of complex, dynamic, ever-expanding cloud environments can be game-changing. Over the past 18 months, the need to utilize cloud architecture has intensified. To understand highly distributed cloud-native technologies, teams need observability that scales using fewer tools, not more.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets organizations can use to evaluate architecture and implement designs that will scale over time.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A structured approach Reducing carbon emissions involves a combination of technology, practice, and planning. Evaluating these on three levels—data center, host, and application architecture (plus code)—is helpful. Application architectures might not be conducive to rehosting. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. These are hard problems, and solving them requires breaking away from old-guard relational database architectures. Aurora's design preserves the core transactional consistency strengths of relational databases.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As cloud-native, distributed architectures proliferate, the need for DevOps technologies and DevOps platform engineers has increased as well. It coincides with the advent of complex, distributed cloud technologies such as microservices and containers. A DevOps platform engineer is a more recent term.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 2, 2020

As more organizations transition to distributed services, IT teams are experiencing the limitations of traditional monitoring tools, which were designed for yesterday’s monolithic architectures. The architects and developers who create the software must design it to be observed. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2021

IT, DevOps, and SRE teams are racing to keep up with the ever-expanding complexity of modern enterprise cloud ecosystems and the business demands they are designed to support. Observability is the new standard of visibility and monitoring for cloud-native architectures. Dynatrace news. Leaders in tech are calling for radical change.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 13, 2019

The core technologies underpinning the major relational database management systems of today were developed in the 1980–1990s. These are hard problems, and solving them requires breaking away from old-guard relational database architectures. Relational databases have been around for a long time.

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