The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By: Rajiv Shringi , Oleksii Tkachuk , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction , a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction.

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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. With the help of security experts, we have designed and developed heuristic functions in order to discover a wide range of suspicious behaviors.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. Tips And Tricks For Evaluating UX/UI Designers. When a company’s digital representation lacks a dedicated UX/UI design team, it can be hard to produce something that stands out from the crowd. That happens when your app/website/system is efficient. Nataliya Sambir.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

To keep infrastructure and bare metal servers running smoothly, a long list of additional devices are used, such as UPS devices, rack cases that provide their own cooling, power sources, and other measures that are designed to prevent failures. Some SNMP-enabled devices are designed to report events on their own with so-called SNMP traps.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future. Piecing together a website using a WYSIWYG editor and seeing the code it generated was a fascinating and educational experience that sparked an initial interest in web design. Mike Neumegen. 2021-08-20T08:00:00+00:00.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

How can we design systems that recognize these nuances and empower every title to shine and bring joy to ourmembers? This led to a suite of fragmented scripts, runbooks, and ad hoc solutions scattered across teamsan approach that was neither sustainable nor efficient. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

In this blog post, we present our project on Auto Remediation, which integrates the currently used rule-based classifier with an ML service and aims to automatically remediate failed jobs without human intervention. the retry success probability) and compute cost efficiency (i.e., Multi-objective optimizations.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

Automation and analysis features, in particular, have boosted operational efficiency and performance by tracking and responding to complex or information-dense situations. Explainable AI tools and practices are important for understanding and weeding out biases like this to improve output accuracy and operational efficiency.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

At this year’s Perform, we are thrilled to have our three strategic cloud partners, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), returning as both sponsors and presenters to share their expertise about cloud modernization and observability of generative AI models.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

by Liwei Guo , Ashwin Kumar Gopi Valliammal , Raymond Tam , Chris Pham , Agata Opalach , Weibo Ni AV1 is the first high-efficiency video codec format with a royalty-free license from Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia), made possible by wide-ranging industry commitment of expertise and resources.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We have been leveraging machine learning (ML) models to personalize artwork and to help our creatives create promotional content efficiently. We will then present a case study of using these components in order to optimize, scale, and solidify an existing pipeline.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. High demand Sudden spikes in demand can overwhelm systems that are not designed to handle such loads, leading to outages. Outages can disrupt services, cause financial losses, and damage brand reputations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits. This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse unifies the massive volume and variety of observability, security, and business data from cloud-native, hybrid, and multicloud environments while retaining the data’s context to deliver instant, cost-efficient, and precise analytics. Digital transformation 2.0

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 30, 2023

What data would you like to have if you were designing an asset suite? Images for the title “Purple Hearts” Creative Insights To create suites that are relevant, attractive, and authentic, we’ve relied on creative strategists and designers with intimate knowledge of the titles to recommend and create the right art for upcoming titles.

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Dynatrace

MAY 26, 2021

In the keynote by Christina Yakomin and Steve Prazenica from Vanguard, the presenters recounted their journey from a monolith with alert-based incident reporting and no positive health signals to an observable microservice architecture. After all, it’s key to sample and store traces efficiently while not missing out on important events.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Building on these foundational abstractions, we developed the TimeSeries Abstraction  — a versatile and scalable solution designed to efficiently store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies, all in a cost-effective manner across various use cases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. It should be noted that not all of the techniques presented are universally applicable, as each migration presents its own unique set of circumstances.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2024

AI is also crucial for securing data privacy, as it can more efficiently detect patterns, anomalies, and indicators of compromise. AI significantly accelerates DevSecOps by processing vast amounts of data to identify and classify potential threats, leading to proactive threat detection and response. Learn more in this blog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. As most key-value storage engines support efficiently deleting a namespace (e.g.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. In a paper published this week at SIGMOD'17 , the Amazon Aurora team presents the design considerations for the new database engine and how they addressed them.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. Dynatrace knows it is not part of the system because the AI has detected an unusual increase in CPU resource consumption, and we see this process was not present the day before.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. From Good To Great In Dashboard Design: Research, Decluttering And Data Viz. Tossing out suboptimal parts of our design can be a daunting task, especially after you’ve invested hours of work into it. Mediocre vs Great Dashboard Design.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

While off-the-shelf models assist many organizations in initiating their journeys with generative AI (GenAI), scaling AI for enterprise use presents formidable challenges. Model observability provides visibility into resource consumption and operation costs, aiding in optimization and ensuring the most efficient use of available resources.

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Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Metrics API v2 is designed in a RESTful way to allow you to discover which metrics are available, retrieve metadata, and to execute sophisticated time series queries. Every metric has metadata properties that are important for efficiently querying data. By default, the response is presented in JSON format. GET /metrics.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

With the introduction of Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI , the development of mobile apps has become more accessible, efficient, and streamlined. In order to make informed decisions, business owners, UX designers, and developers require data—specifically, they rely on insights from their data on a large scale, ideally in a single location.

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InfoQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Peter Lawrey discusses achieving vertical scalability by minimizing accidental complexity and using an event-driven architecture. By Peter Lawrey

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Bitrate versus quality comparison HDR-VMAF is designed to be format-agnostic — it measures the perceptual quality of HDR video signal regardless of its container format, for example, Dolby Vision or HDR10. We present two sets. On the other hand, the optimized ladder presents a sharper increase in quality with increasing bitrate.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

But DIY projects require extensive planning and careful consideration, including choosing the right technology stack, outlining the application’s framework, selecting a design system for the user interface, and ensuring everything is secure, compliant, and scalable to meet the requirements of large enterprises.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this context, managing the data, especially when it arrives late, can present a substantial challenge! In this three-part blog post series, we introduce you to Psyberg , our incremental data processing framework designed to tackle such challenges! Given our role on this critical path, accuracy is paramount. Let’s dive in!

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace’s ingestion of logs also enables organizations to automate cloud-related log tasks by doing the following: automatically identifying the precise root cause of a problem in real time to simplify cloud complexity; automating cloud operations and triggering remediation workflow to enhance efficiency; and.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 22, 2024

What is Maestro Maestro is a general-purpose, horizontally scalable workflow orchestrator designed to manage large-scale workflows such as data pipelines and machine learning model training pipelines. The transition was seamless, and Maestro has met our design goals by handling our ever-growing workloads. increase in executed jobs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 13, 2020

The teams have been working closely on SVT-AV1 development, discussing architectural decisions, implementing new tools, and improving compression efficiency. The SVT-AV1 encoder supports all AV1 tools which contribute to compression efficiency. The results are presented for 1-pass mode with fixed frame-level QP offsets.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. In 2019, Netflix moved thousands of container hosts to bare metal.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Yet upgrading antiquated systems and effectively integrating them into modern workflows is challenging despite the potential to increase efficiency, improve security, reduce the higher operational costs associated with supporting tech debt, and avoid the foreseeable breaks in end-of-life apps.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

At this year’s RSA conference, taking place in San Francisco from May 6-9, presenters will explore ideas such as redefining security in the age of AI. Attendees will seek answers to two crucial questions: ‘How secure are we?’ ’ and ‘How compliant are we?

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