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

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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 2, 2021

To achieve relevant insights, raw metrics typically need to be processed through filtering, aggregation, or arithmetic operations. This is especially true when the goal is to present information to non-technical users, but all technical teams can benefit from aligning raw metrics with higher-level KPIs and SLOs. Presentation matters.

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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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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? As Netflix expanded globally and the volume of title launches skyrocketed, the operational challenges of maintaining this manual process became undeniable. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different.

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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. They may stem from software bugs, cyberattacks, surges in demand, issues with backup processes, network problems, or human errors. Outages can disrupt services, cause financial losses, and damage brand reputations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Obviously not all tools are made with the same use case in mind, so we are planning to add more code samples for other (than classical batch ETL) data processing purposes, e.g. Machine Learning model building and scoring. It’s designed to run for a single date, and meant to be called from the daily or backfill workflows.

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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. A process that doesn’t just minimize risk, but also facilitates a continuous evaluation of the rollout’s impact.

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Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

Overcoming the barriers presented by legacy security practices that are typically manually intensive and slow, requires a DevSecOps mindset where security is architected and planned from project conception and automated for speed and scale throughout where possible. Challenge: Monitoring processes for anomalous behavior.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We accomplish this by paving the path to: Accessing and processing media data (e.g. We will then present a case study of using these components in order to optimize, scale, and solidify an existing pipeline. mp4, clip1.mp4,

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We also need to source multiple images for each title representing different themes so we can present an image that is relevant to each member’s taste. The artwork generated by this pipeline is used to augment the artwork typically sourced from design agencies. The whole process can be divided into two parts Generation Review 1.

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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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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

In a perfect world, a robust AI model can perform complex tasks while users observe the decision process and audit any errors or concerns. To some, it’s a design methodology — a foundational pillar of the AI model development process. Explainable AI methodologies are still in the early stages of development.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you. High-level Process Sections Conceptually, there are three major sections to a modernisation process. This means a software architecture should be purposely designed for the most favourable business consequences.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. The Value Of Concept Testing As Part Of Product Design. UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. I believe concept testing is a pivotal part of the up-front UX process.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We can connect the root cause to the process owner.” The unified observability and security platform presents data in intuitive, user-friendly ways. “Dynatrace will tell you that something is wrong and what is wrong. “Then, we can ask Dynatrace if an app is adhering to development pillars.

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DZone

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Energy efficiency has become a paramount concern in the design and operation of distributed systems due to the increasing demand for sustainable and environmentally friendly computing solutions.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 26, 2024

“It was an iterative process allowing us to reflect on the past, present, and future of Dynatrace, discuss our findings, and explore the results received in the employee experience discovery.” ” Dynatrace CEO, Rick McConnell Now, our refreshed Dynatrace Core Values are established. .” Stay tuned.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing One approach to such a challenging scenario is stream processing, a computing paradigm and software architectural style for data-intensive software systems that emerged to cope with requirements for near real-time processing of massive amounts of data.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. I found the printmaking process incredibly satisfying. It’s an independently published magazine which “hones in on the people, passion and processes behind the art form of printmaking.” The result is a design which feels connected.

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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! Let’s dive in! What is late-arriving data? Some techniques we used were: 1.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 20, 2023

To ensure consistent progress in app development, it’s crucial to stay updated and integrate these innovations into your development process. 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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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

APRIL 4, 2023

Application resilience made easy To meet that need, the Dynatrace Health View is designed to help customers observe the overall application health while still retaining a basic view of app interconnectivity within the organization. “So, progressive disclosure is something we have adhered to very strongly here.

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The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

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. By using this high-level description we were able to greatly simplify the pipeline creation process for users by filling in common yet required configuration for the Data Mesh pipeline.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

We’ll further learn how Omnilogy developed a custom Pipeline Observability Solution on top of Dynatrace and gain insights into their thought process throughout the journey. This lack of comprehensive visibility into the performance of CI/CD pipelines poses a significant challenge, as they’re vital to the software delivery process.

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InfoQ

JULY 8, 2020

She talks about how to remain agile and support a production application throughout this process. She covers the benefits of the Backend For Frontend pattern and why it's a popular way to introduce GraphQL. By Michelle Garrett.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We heard many stories about difficulties related to data access and basic data processing. Over the past two years, Metaflow has been used internally at Netflix to build and manage hundreds of data-science projects from natural language processing to operations research. It leverages elasticity of the cloud by design?—?both

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

There are several benefits of such optimizations like saving on storage, faster query time, cheaper downstream processing, and an increase in developer productivity by removing additional ETLs written only for query performance improvement. Then deep dive into the merging use case of AutoOptimize and share some results and benefits.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We identified common design patterns and architectures scattered across various tools which were all duplicating efforts in some way or another. By designing to rigid interfaces defined by a host application, both the plugin and host can be developed in parallel. In our example, we need to define two areas that can be extended?—?the

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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. What can we move?

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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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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 13, 2020

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Inspired Design Decisions: Avaunt Magazine. Andrew Clarke.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

However, because organizations typically use multiple mobile monitoring tools, this process is often far more difficult than it should be. Most organizations have a grab bag of monitoring tools, each designed for a specific use case. Organizations must ensure strict compliance without creating too many burdensome manual processes.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 17, 2021

Though, it’s typically impossible to remediate all known security vulnerabilities so enterprises need a better solution for identifying those detected security vulnerabilities that present the greatest risk. Out of the box, Davis Security Advisor pinpoints the open-source components that present the greatest threat.

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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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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. However, their focus has always been on making a great-looking and effective design. Suzanne Scacca.

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