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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CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Given that 66% of all websites (and 77% of all requests ) are running HTTP/2, I will not discuss concatenation strategies for HTTP/1.1 We need to learn a little bit more about the rest of our setup before we can make a final decision about our concatenation strategy. ?️ What happens when we adjust our compression strategy?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

RabbitMQ is designed for flexible routing and message reliability, while Kafka handles high-throughput event streaming and real-time data processing. Its design prioritizes high availability and efficient data transfer with minimal overhead, making it a practical choice for handling real-time data pipelines and distributed event processing.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

Key Takeaways Enterprise cloud security is vital due to increased cloud adoption and the significant financial and reputational risks associated with security breaches; a multilayered security strategy that includes encryption, access management, and compliance is essential.

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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

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. OTel is designed to ensure flexibility and stability. So, the design of OTel allows for flexibility.

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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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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. Migrating Persistent Stores Stateful APIs pose unique challenges that require different strategies. But what happens when this machinery needs a transformation?

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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. Therefore, these organizations need an in-depth strategy for handling data that AI models ingest, so teams can build AI platforms with security in mind.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what they had created was a document with a lot of words, but those words did not articulate a strategy. There is a formula for articulating strategy. The actions must be, well, actionable.

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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’s why you need a good UI/UX designer. Nataliya Sambir. And vice versa.

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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. It’s got a selection of free tools you can use for defining your technology strategy, shaping your architectural boundaries, and organising your teams. How are we going to deliver the new architecture?

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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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. Finding a balance between complexity and impact must be a priority for organizations that adopt AI strategies.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2024

This article delves into the nuances of Alibaba’s microservices architecture, presenting critical insights into its design, scalability, performance optimisation, and resource management strategies. This article draws from research by Luo et al.,

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Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2024

Unified observability and security present data in intuitive, user-friendly ways to enable data gathering, analysis, and collaboration while reducing mean time to repair (MTTR) issues and boosting application performance and availability. But while powerful, these environments are complex and challenging to manage.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 25, 2023

Further, legacy custom-developed apps were not built to meet the present-day user experience that HHS clients and partners expect. Step 2: Design and activate your cloud migration strategy It takes smart planning to migrate applications to the cloud with minimal disruption.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This intricate allocation strategy can be categorized into two main domains. In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present.

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CSS Wizardry

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

While this strategy is effective, it’s not simple: highly dynamic sites can be difficult to extract styles from, the process needs to be automated, we have to make assumptions about what above the fold even is, it’s hard to capture edge cases, and tooling still in its relative infancy. This is on purpose. Test, test, test.

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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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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. We call this suite of assisted artwork “The Essential Suite”.

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Edge Perspectives

AUGUST 5, 2019

But to really scale learning, we’re going to need to adopt a very different approach to strategy – the “zoom out, zoom in” approach. Institutions have increasingly moved to reactive forms of strategy where the key goal is to sense and respond as quickly as possible to what is happening at the moment. What can help them do that?

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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. As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. We designed experimental scenarios inspired by chaos engineering. Kafka Streams takes longer to recover from failures and presents volatile behavior.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces presents and shares real information on hardware, people, interactions, and environments. Cover design by Espen Brunborg.

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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. This allows us to present the content exactly as creatively envisioned on devices and plans which support such high resolution and frame-rate playback.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. Smashing Podcast Episode 41 With Eva PenzeyMoog: Designing For Safety. In this episode, we’re talking about designing for safety. What does it mean to consider vulnerable users in our designs? Design for Safety from A Book Apart. Drew McLellan.

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DZone

JUNE 7, 2023

By presenting different variations of a webpage to different users and measuring their responses, developers can gain a deeper understanding of how users interact with the website. It helps identify user preferences and patterns that can inform design decisions and optimizations.

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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 4, 2019

Because microprocessors are so fast, computer architecture design has evolved towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the main memory, in order to hide the latency of bringing the bits to the brains. We are working on multiple fronts to extend the solution presented here.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

The main concern in pre-production on the left side of the loop is building software that meets design criteria. This method is commonly used in web design. Users are presented with one of two versions of a page and the results are measured to determine which generates a greater response. Types of shift-right tests. A/B testing.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

The main concern in pre-production on the left side of the loop is building software that meets design criteria. This method is commonly used in web design. Users are presented with one of two versions of a page and the results are measured to determine which generates a greater response. Types of shift-right tests. A/B testing.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary.

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CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 13, 2019

The implication here is that we’ve now rendered any font-loading strategies completely ineffective: font-display can’t work if there are no fonts; the Font Loading API is useless if there are no fonts. Remember, neither of these changes are solving any of the issues inherently present in Cloud.typography. That’s approximately $15.5m

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It became increasingly clear that they would need a new strategy. Designing an effective AI learning path that worked with the Head First methodwhich engages readers through active learning and interactive puzzles, exercises, and other elementstook months of intense research and experimentation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

The complexity of these factors makes it difficult to determine the best creative strategy for upcoming titles. The tool provides an efficient way for creatives (photo editors, artwork designers, etc.) For many teams and titles, Stills are essential to Netflix’s promotional asset strategy.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

This allows the clients to search with multiple data labels (resulted from different algorithms so they are different annotation types) within video specific time range or the complete video, and get the list of time ranges or frames where the provided set of data labels are present.

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