The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Over the course of the four years it became clear that I enjoyed combining analytical skills with solving real world problems, so a PhD in Statistics was a natural next step. They are continuously innovating compression algorithms to efficiently send high quality audio and video files to our customers over the internet. benefit more?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“Because of the uncertainty of the times and the likely realities of the ‘new normal,’ more and more organizations are now charting the course for their journeys toward cloud computing and digital transformation,” wrote Gaurav Aggarwal in a Forbes article the impact of COVID-19 on cloud adoption.

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Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. Isolated parts of the database can serve read/write requests in case of network partition. To prevent conflicts, a database must sacrifice availability in case of network partitioning and stop all but one partition.

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Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

IT modernization improves public health services at state human services agencies For many organizations, the pandemic was a crash course in IT modernization as agencies scrambled to meet the community’s needs as details unfolded. The costs and challenges of technical debt Retaining older systems brings both direct and indirect costs.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This increased automation, resilience, and efficiency helps DevOps teams speed up software delivery and accelerate the feedback loop — ultimately allowing them to innovate faster and more confidently. It may have third-party calls, such as content delivery networks, or more complex requests to a back end or microservice-based application.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So many false starts, tedious workflows, and a complete lack of efficiency really made it difficult for me to find momentum. Of course, it’s a little more complex than that, but for this exercise it’s an incredibly reliable proxy. against many other metrics as other milestones (except CLS) are network-bound and TBT is CPU-bound.

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Speed Ecommerce Metrics Analytics 337

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2020

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course end-users that access these applications – including your customers and employees. Websites, mobile apps, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

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Monitoring Performance Social Media Artificial Intelligence 173

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

million : new image/caption training set; 32,408,715 : queries sent to Pwned Passwords; 53% : Memory ICs Total 2018 Semi Capex; 11 : story Facebook datacenter prison in Singapore; $740,357 : ave cost of network downtime; Quotable Quotes: @BenedictEvans : Recorded music: $18 billion. Matthew Dillon : This is *very* impressive efficiency.

Internet 137

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Over the course of this post, we will talk about our approach to this migration, the strategies that we employed, and the tools we built to support this. However, with the new microservice, even fetching this cached data needed to incur a network round trip, which added some latency. This meant that data that was static (e.g.

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. And even that list is not invulnerable. Neither are clouds.

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High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

At some point, the e-mail I send over WiFi will hit a wire, of course". What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore? slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless. Yep, there are more quotes.

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Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Getting fast initial render with streaming server-side rendering, efficient component-level updates and state transitions, while also setting up a performant loading and bundling strategy for all the assets is hard and time-consuming technical work.

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Cache Best Practices Strategy Servers 139

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By breaking up large datasets into more manageable pieces, each segment can be assigned to various network nodes for storage and management purposes. It utilizes methodologies like DStore, which takes advantage of underused hard drive space by using it for storing vast amounts of collected datasets while enabling efficient recovery processes.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The aim is to make everyone experience and feel our Dynatrace culture, from the onboarding experience and global hybrid events and meetings to Slack communities and remote courses. A healthy work-life balance is key to innovation, efficiency, and happy employees. Empower local leaders. Foster diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Particular Software

MARCH 1, 2021

Of course, there are upfront and ongoing costs associated with any computer network. The servers themselves, cabling, network switches, racks, load balancers, firewalls, power equipment, air handling, security, rent/mortgage, not to mention experienced staff to keep it all running smoothly, all come with a cost.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

Continuous cloud monitoring enables real-time detection and response to incidents, with best practices highlighting the importance of assessing cloud service providers, adopting layered security, and leveraging automation for efficient scanning and monitoring.

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Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

QUIC is needed because TCP, which has been around since the early days of the Internet, was not really built with maximum efficiency in mind. It also, however, takes a full network round trip to complete before anything else can be done on a connection. and lower), this typically takes two network round trips.

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law ). Options 1 and 2 are of course the ‘scale out’ options, whereas option 3 is ‘scale up’. FPGAs are chosen because they are both energy efficient and available on SmartNICs). IDS/IPS requirements.

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Servers Hardware Latency Design 128

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

Another configuration we can use to increase the efficiency of parallel execution on the slaves is to tune binlog_group_commit_sync_delay on the master. The theorem states that, in the presence of a network partition, we will have to choose either availability or consistency, but not both. rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_no_slave.

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Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The secret sharer: evaluating and testing unintended memorization in neural networks Carlini et al., Can we efficiently extract secrets from pre-trained models? Of course, we’ll be dealing with random spaces much larger than the set of numbers from zero to nine. Can we efficiently extract secrets from pre-trained models?

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Network Testing Strategy Google 55

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

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Metrics Strategy Testing Efficiency 146

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

Metrics 143

Metrics Strategy Testing Efficiency 143

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. Mobile apps, websites, and business applications are typical use cases for monitoring.

Monitoring 165

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Infrastructure 165

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

As the size of the active dataset increases, the cache becomes less and less efficient. Indexes can get bloated and become less efficient over time. So obviously, backups take more time, storage, and network resources, and then the same backup can put more load on the host machine. Learn more about Percona Training

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 139

The Morning Paper

MARCH 8, 2020

Analysed from the perspective of cloud-native design this presents a number of issues: CPU, memory, storage, and bandwidth resources are all aggregated at each node, and can’t be scaled independently, making it hard to fit a workload efficiently across multiple dimensions. The scorecard.

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Storage Engineering Cache Serverless 112

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

" Running end-user compute inside the datastore is not without its challenges of course. In from of them is a networking layer, and the in-memory storage layer holds the actual data. But the real benefits of course come from the fact that you can architect your solution to take advantage of function shipping in the first place.

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Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2019

To do this, we have teams of experts that develop more efficient video and audio encodes , refine the adaptive streaming algorithm , and optimize content placement on the distributed servers that host the shows and movies that you watch. The goal is to bring you joy by delivering the content you love quickly and reliably every time you watch.

Metrics 130

Metrics Strategy Testing Efficiency 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We launched Edge Network locations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Winning in this race requires that we become much more customer oriented, much more efficient in all of our operations, and at the same time shift our culture towards more lean and experimental. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

On the other hand, when one is interested only in simple additive metrics like total page views or average price of conversion, it is obvious that raw data can be efficiently summarized, for example, on a daily basis or using simple in-stream counters. A group of several such sketches can be used to process range query. bits per unique value.

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Analytics Traffic Big Data Efficiency 191

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Both of these metrics will fluctuate over the course of a test, so we post metric values at regular intervals throughout the test. so are power levels and network bandwidth. This improved efficiency and higher confidence level helps us to quickly identify and fix regressions before they reach our members.

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Performance Performance Testing Metrics Testing 208

MachMetrics

APRIL 3, 2020

Souders presents his 14 rules throughout the course of the book while discussing the importance of front-end performance. Sounders, along with 8 expert contributors, expands upon the tips in the first book and offers best practices in JavaScript, network, and browser optimization.

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Speed Performance Best Practices Website 85

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Next, we’ll look at how to set up servers and clients (that’s the hard part unless you’re using a content delivery network (CDN)). Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Servers and Networks.

Network 120

Network Servers Cache Traffic 120

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In order to achieve this efficiently, you might be wondering what and how much you need to test. You might find one possible answer in a metaphor: The test automation pyramid , first introduced by Mike Cohn and further specified by Martin Fowler, shows how to make testing efficient. A selection of examples, recipes, and courses.

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Testing Website Code Efficiency 138

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. To speed up migration and quickly restore wasm functions at the destination, the wasm instantiate function is intially called with a dummy linear memory, and then this is later replaced once the real memory has arrived over the network. in the cloud).

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Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 21, 2020

The Internet itself, over which these systems operate, is a dynamically distributed network spanning national borders and policies with no central coordinating agent. Moreover: Causality is complex and networked. if anomalies are recognised during the course of monitoring, those observation are fed back into response planning.

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Internet Internet Strategy Energy 98

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Since its inception in 2013, Docker has become the de facto standard for developers due to its ability to make more efficient use of system resources, ship software faster, and minimize security issues. Key metrics here include memory requests, CPU requests, disk utilization, and network throughput. OpenShift 3.0

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Monitoring DevOps Infrastructure Metrics 147

The Morning Paper

APRIL 16, 2019

Teaching rigorous distributed systems with efficient model checking Michael et al., It describes the labs environment, DSLabs , developed at the University of Washington to accompany a course in distributed systems. 175 undergraduates a year currently go through this course. Of course, we never make that mistake in industry;) ).

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