The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 1, 2019

the brilliant synth-pop score or the perfectly mixed soundscape of a high speed chase?—?is Our engineering team and Creative Technologies sound expert joined forces to quickly solve the issue, but a larger conversation about higher quality audio continued. Imagine this scene without the sound.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

By Alex Hutter , Falguni Jhaveri and Senthil Sayeebaba Over the past few years Content Engineering at Netflix has been transitioning many of its services to use a federated GraphQL platform. The Studio Search platform was designed to take a portion of the federated graph, a subgraph rooted at an entity of interest, and make it searchable.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 15, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. She understood how important mobile page speeds were to the user experience and, by proxy, SEO.

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CSS Wizardry

JULY 23, 2023

Google do strongly encourage you to focus on site speed for better performance in Search, but, if you don’t pass all relevant Core Web Vitals (and the applicable factors from the Page Experience report) they will not push you down the rankings. While Core Web Vitals can help with SEO, there’s so much more to site-speed than that.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Cloud-native environments bring speed and agility to software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But with that speed and agility comes new complications and complexity, all while maintaining performance and reliability with less than 1% down-time per year. SRE as an application of DevOps. SRE vs DevOps?

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Search engine optimization (SEO) is an essential part of a website’s design, and one all too often overlooked. From UX design to copywriting, quality content takes commitment, passion, and time. Frederick O’Brien.

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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Performance testing is mainly a subset of Performance engineering and is also referred to as ' Perf Tests.' Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2021

Anticipating the evolution of our market, we designed the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to: Provide the broadest multicloud observability , spanning applications, infrastructure, user experience, AIOps, automation, and application security in a single platform, to provide a single source of truth across the full stack.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Speed is next; serverless solutions are quick to spin up or down as needed, and there are no delays due to limited storage or resource access.

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ACM Sigarch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

We look here at a Gedankenexperiment: move 16 bytes per cycle , addressing not just the CPU movement, but also the surrounding system design. A lesser design cannot possibly move 16 bytes per cycle. This base design can map easily onto many current chips. Thought Experiment. We finish by testing for len > 255. Long Moves.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Starting from scratch, we’re going to show you how to Create charts with just a few clicks Enhance your dashboard with AI Make your data look beautiful Approach and execute complex queries Use readymade dashboards as a fast route for deep insights Interact with your dashboards to speed up problem resolution Boost user experience by applying design (..)

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial. A lot of web design talk concerns itself with what goes on around content. Page speed, design systems, search engine optimization, frameworks, accessibility — the list goes on and on. Frederick O’Brien.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix?

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a Software Engineer, the mind is trained to seek optimizations in every aspect of development and ooze out every bit of available CPU Resource to deliver a performing application. This begins not only in designing the algorithm or coming out with efficient and robust architecture but right onto the choice of programming language.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

Composite’ AI, platform engineering, AI data analysis through custom apps This focus on data reliability and data quality also highlights the need for organizations to bring a “ composite AI ” approach to IT operations, security, and DevOps. Check back here throughout the event for the latest news, insights, and announcements.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A data lakehouse addresses these limitations and introduces an entirely new architectural design. Further, it builds a rich analytics layer powered by Dynatrace causational artificial intelligence, Davis® AI, and creates a query engine that offers insights at unmatched speed. Ingest and process with Grail.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

IT pros want a data and analytics solution that doesn’t require tradeoffs between speed, scale, and cost. It should be open by design to accelerate innovation, enable powerful integration with other tools, and purposefully unify data and analytics. It saves engineers a lot of time by showing exactly what went wrong and how it happened.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, getting reliable answers from observability data so teams can automate more processes to ensure speed, quality, and reliability can be challenging. This drive for speed has a cost: 22% of leaders admit they’re under so much pressure to innovate faster that they must sacrifice code quality. – blog.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2020

By leveraging the AWS Lambda Extensions API , Dynatrace brings the unique value of its Davis AI-engine for fully automatic root cause analysis to AWS Lambda. Serverless functions extend applications to accelerate speed of innovation. For the Checkout function example (see below), the median response time is around 580ms.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers. In the past couple of years, it’s no secret that our design tools have exponentially evolved. How do we bridge this gap between what is designed over what is developed without the overhead of constantly doing reviews?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

This “shift left” approach to security enables developers to address issues before they reach production, which speeds up delivery and reduces risk. Security is by design, not tacked on. The result is security by design. The most hardened applications are those for which security was a key consideration all along.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 28, 2020

Our explainable AI engine , Davis ™ , which is built into the core of the Dynatrace platform, proactively delivers precise answers to system degradations and performance anomalies , and automatically prioritizes these based on business impact. .

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Dynatrace

MARCH 11, 2024

Look, I’m an engineer,” Williamson said. Engineers… we make up words. And friction is a speed problem.” But if risk is high, then authorization is allowed only after those seeking access have earned a designated level of needed trust. “At He defined this term as the elasticity of rigor based on risk.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To achieve this goal, the Encoding Technologies team made the following design decisions about AV1 encoding recipes: We always encode at the highest available source resolution and frame rate. With multiple iterations, the team arrived at a recipe that significantly speeds up the encoding with negligible compression efficiency changes.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Dynatrace DevOps activist Andreas Grabner and director of sales engineering Brian Wilson tackled this question in a recent episode of the PurePerformance podcast. Thair elaborated on the concept of “designing for operations” with a car analogy. That’s not good design for Ops,” he said.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Staying ahead of customer needs requires speed and agility from all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). DevOps automation is a set of tools and technologies that perform routine, repeatable tasks that engineers would otherwise do manually. It helps to assess the long- and short-term efficiency and speed of DevOps.

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2024

But just as organizations are adopting platform engineering practices to standardize DevSecOps tools and methods, they also need observability of their AI models to ensure their teams are using AI safely, efficiently, and compliantly. The following resources explore the ways in which AI makes DevSecOps more effective. Learn more in this blog.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

RISELabs , those wonderfully innovative folks over at Berkeley, have uplifted their Anna datatabase —a shared-nothing, thread-per-core architecture to achieve lightning-fast speeds by avoiding all coordination mechanisms—to become cloud-aware. Our monitoring engine automatically moves data between tiers based on access patterns.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

The decision to ban competing browser engines is as old as iOS, but Apple has only attempted to explain itself in recent years. Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? Apple's Arguments #. If no, please explain why not.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking. Dynatrace news. So, why is all this important?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The problem feed is designed to prioritize active issues, ensuring they always appear at the top, regardless of how long they’ve been ongoing. This is why precisely showing the root cause ultimately helps to speed up problem resolution. The root cause is shown in the context of Infrastructure & Operations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

It’s designed to run for a single date, and meant to be called from the daily or backfill workflows. Languages Over time, the extraction of data from Netflix’s source systems has grown to encompass a wider range of end-users, such as engineers, data scientists, analysts, marketers, and other stakeholders.

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Alex Russell

JUNE 22, 2022

As penance for this error, and for being short with Miguel , I must deconstruct the ways Apple has undermined browser engine diversity. Contrary to claims of Apple partisans, iOS engine restrictions are not preventing a "takeover" by Chromium — at least that's not the primary effect. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This methodology combines software design, development, automation, operations, and analytics to boost customer experience, increase application security, and reduce downtime that affects business outcomes. Chaos engineering. Software development success no longer means just meeting project deadlines. Auto-remediation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Membership Engineering at Netflix is responsible for the plan and pricing configurations for every market worldwide. However, with our rapid product innovation speed, the whole approach experienced significant challenges: Business Complexity: The existing SKU management solution was designed years ago when the engagement rules were simple?—?three

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