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. Streaming Platforms Commercial streaming platforms shown in Figure 1 mainly rely on Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems.

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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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DZone

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The system could work efficiently with a specific number of concurrent users; however, it may get dysfunctional with extra loads during peak traffic. With rising competition in the digital world and the requirement to be present in the top rank of the category, makes performance tests crucial for companies.

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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. More after jump!

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DZone

AUGUST 12, 2021

Software Development goes through many phases like requirement gathering & analysis, communication, design, code building, testing, and release. Unit testing Frameworks like JUnit and TestNG present similar test roots, so the debate over TestNG vs. JUnit persists. What is Unit Testing?

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Dynatrace

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon’s new general-purpose Linux for AWS is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run cloud applications. This is done by detecting availability and performance problems in real time across an entire technology stack while presenting teams with answers — not alert storms.

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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. During the 90s, we saw two content management systems for static sites — Microsoft FrontPage in 1996 and Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1997. You work with a designer and developer to create a bespoke website.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. 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. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We will then present a case study of using these components in order to optimize, scale, and solidify an existing pipeline. This feature store is equipped with a data replication system that enables copying data to different storage solutions depending on the required access patterns.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

To achieve this, we are committed to building robust systems that deliver comprehensive observability, enabling us to take full accountability for every title on ourservice. Each title represents countless hours of effort and creativity, and our systems need to honor that uniqueness. Yet, these pages couldnt be more different.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2024

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. Ransomware encrypts essential data, locking users out of systems and halting operations until a ransom is paid. Outages can disrupt services, cause financial losses, and damage brand reputations.

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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. But manual configuration of observability for systems like this is nearly impossible.

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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. This smart baselining capability drew great interest.

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, most monitoring solutions are deployed piecemeal or simply don’t support integration with other critical systems. Because Dynatrace provides such a comprehensive monitoring system , a dashboard filled with detailed monitoring data isn’t useful for many higher-level stakeholders.

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DZone

MARCH 12, 2024

To address this challenge, we developed Smart Scaler, a tool designed to automate infrastructure and application resource scaling. Over the years, I’ve collaborated closely with various teams to ensure systems function properly. However, this presented a significant friction point in current operating models.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Thanks to the Netflix internal lineage system (built by Girish Lingappa ) Dataflow migration can then help you identify downstream usage of the table in question. It’s designed to run for a single date, and meant to be called from the daily or backfill workflows. This pipeline is safe to run the moment it shows up in your directory.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 18, 2024

DevOps tools , security response systems , search technologies, and more have all benefited from AI technology’s progress. To some, it’s a design methodology — a foundational pillar of the AI model development process. The functionality and complexity of business-oriented AI applications have increased exponentially.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We’ve built the ability to track all business SLOs [service-level objectives].” And with Dynatrace Site Reliability Guardian , all teams across the organization can understand how their specific silo operates in relation to critical systems. The unified observability and security platform presents data in intuitive, user-friendly ways.

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Dynatrace

MAY 20, 2020

Running metric queries on a subset of entities for live monitoring and system overviews. 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. By default, the response is presented in JSON format. GET /metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. As the number of Titus users increased over the years, the load and pressure on the system increased substantially.

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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. Teams also use information about applications or system architecture for prioritization. The CVSS score is risk-averse by design.

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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. UX teams should consider it a mandatory step in designing a product.

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Strategic Tech

JULY 21, 2020

Most organisations go through an architecture modernisation effort at some point as their systems drift into a state of intolerable maintenance costs and they diverge too far from modern technological advances. Before jumping into either of those scenarios, have a look at what Strategic Domain-Driven Design can offer you.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Inspired Design Decisions: Pressing Matters. Its publishers hope to inspire newcomers to printmaking, but as I thumbed through its pages, I found there is plenty about the design of Pressing Matters which can inspire web designers too. Andrew Clarke. 2019-07-11T12:30:59+02:00.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The GUI can be extended with plugins, allowing the community to build integrations to other systems, custom visualizations, and embed upcoming features of Metaflow directly into its views. Requirements for a Metaflow GUI Metaflow is a human-centered system by design. The GUI would be targeted at professional data scientists.

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InfoQ

APRIL 26, 2024

Lily Mara, Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it. By Lily Mara, Hunter Laine

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Particular Software

MAY 22, 2023

When one of those meetings occurs after a carb-heavy lunch, it’s easy for your mind to drift away…back to those university lectures about entity design. Is this the best way to build a system, though? One cart to rule them all As the meeting continues, the design for the shopping cart begins to take shape. It gets worse.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture. By John Spray

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Today we have a wealth of tools, both OSS and commercial, all designed for cloud-native environments. To improve availability, we designed systems where components could fail separately and avoid single points of failure. Eureka and Ribbon presented a simple but powerful interface, which made adopting them easy.

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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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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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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

MARCH 7, 2023

We designed a unique concept called Annotation Operations which allows teams to create data pipelines and easily write annotations without worrying about access patterns of their data from different applications. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. This is obviously very expensive.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The whole system was quite complex, and starting to become brittle. The API server orchestrates backend systems to authenticate the user. Upstream systems had to reopen the tokens to identify the user logging in and potentially manage multiple parallel identity data structures, which could easily get out of sync.

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