The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2022

Composition-Based Design System In Figma. Composition-Based Design System In Figma. Working as a designer on a design system for a large product has taught me how precious the time you spend on a single task/component is. Introducing “Composition” For Design Systems: Composable Content And Containers.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At financial services company, Soldo, efficiency and security by design are paramount goals. The platform helps companies manage corporate spending using automation, card (physical and virtual), and integrations with expense management systems and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, such as Netsuite, Concur, Zucchetti, and so on. “We

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EdgeConnect provides a secure bridge for SaaS-heavy companies like Dynatrace, which hosts numerous systems and data behind VPNs. In this hybrid world, IT and business processes often span across a blend of on-premises and SaaS systems, making standardization and automation necessary for efficiency.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

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DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Metadata synchronization (sync) is a core feature in Alluxio that keeps files and directories consistent with their source of truth in under-storage systems, thus making it simple for users to reason the data retrieved from Alluxio. Meanwhile, understanding the internal process is important in order to tune the performance.

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DZone

JUNE 22, 2023

API performance optimization is the process of improving the speed, scalability, and reliability of APIs. It involves a combination of techniques and best practices aimed at reducing latency, improving user experience, and increasing the overall efficiency of the system. What Is API Performance Optimization?

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Dynatrace

APRIL 19, 2023

Creating an ecosystem that facilitates data security and data privacy by design can be difficult, but it’s critical to securing information. When organizations focus on data privacy by design, they build security considerations into cloud systems upfront rather than as a bolt-on consideration.

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DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The Scheduler service enables this and is designed to address the performance and scalability improvements on Actor reminders and the Workflow API. In this post, I am going to deep dive into the details of how the Scheduler service was designed and its implementation to give you some background. Prior to v1.14 Prior to v1.14

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DZone

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Knowing anti-patterns and pitfalls is often more useful than knowing patterns when designing a system, so I decided to write this blog post about factors that I think will lead to producing unreliable systems from my experiences in designing (mostly) distributed enterprise applications. What Is Modeling?

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In this article, we discuss the concepts of dependability and fault tolerance in detail and explain how the Ably platform is designed with fault tolerant approaches to uphold its dependability guarantees. Fault tolerant design approaches address these shortfalls to provide continuity both to business and to the user experience.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2024

Modern observability and security require comprehensive access to your hosts, processes, services, and applications to monitor system performance, conduct live debugging, and ensure application security protection. Changes are introduced on a controlled schedule, typically once a week, to reduce the risk of affecting customer 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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Official Blog - World Web Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How does it contribute to the software development process ? This article will explain why most companies and their software developers use SDLC to manage their development process. SDLC is an essential framework for the total software development process as it aids in managing software development projects effectively.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

There's also the risk that the complexity of these systems could lead to a false sense of security. Particularly, deploying differential privacy in large, real-world systems is far from trivial. Cohere In this paper, authors introduce Cohere, a new system that simplifies the use of DP in large-scale systems.

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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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Addy Osmani

JULY 28, 2023

Complex systems are inherently multifaceted and intricate. They are often not intentionally designed to be understood in an instant. This stands true for both naturally occurring systems like ecosystems and human-designed systems like advanced software or machinery.

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Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2019

Flow Designer for more consistency in the delivery cycle. At this year’s Google Cloud Next conference, xMatters introduced Flow Designer , a visual designer that enables users to resolve issues without writing a single line of code. Flow Designer then connects the tools for you. How is this done? Slow microservices.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. Part Of: Design Patterns. Vitaly Friedman. 2021-08-05T13:30:00+00:00. 2021-08-05T17:04:11+00:00. Part 1: Perfect Accordion.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Mainframe architecture refers to the design and structure of a mainframe computer system, which is a powerful and reliable computing platform used for large-scale data processing, transaction processing, and enterprise applications.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2019

Welcome back to the blog series in which we share how you can easily solve three common problem scenarios by using Dynatrace and xMatters Flow Designer. In Part 1 we explored how DevOps teams can prevent a process crash from taking down services across an organization in five easy steps. xMatters creates and updates Jira issues.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

At the heart of this decision lies a crucial question: should these teams lay the groundwork with a microservice architecture, known for its distributed and decentralized nature, or opt for a monolithic design, where the entire application is unified and interdependent?

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of website design, the Elementor WordPress website builder has emerged as a transformative force. We will explore its capabilities and highlight why it has become a preferred choice for web designers. Elementor is a robust, user-friendly website builder designed for WordPress.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2023

You can maintain a competitive edge and produce aesthetically pleasing websites in the dynamic field of web design solutions. You can create a website that is visually attractive and easy to use with the best web design solutions and tools. Web Design Solutions Made Easy! Top 9 Software for a Website Designing Company in India!

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The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Migrating a privacy-safe information extraction system to a software 2.0 design , Sheng, CIDR’20. This is a comparatively short (7 pages) but very interesting paper detailing the migration of a software system to a ‘Software 2.0’ ’ design. traditional software) to a Software 2.0 In Software 1.0

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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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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Migrating a message-based system from on-premises to the cloud is a colossal undertaking. If you search for “how to migrate to the cloud”, there are reams of articles that encourage you to understand your system, evaluate cloud providers, choose the right messaging service, and manage security and compliance.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. Business events: Delivering the best data It’s been two years since we introduced business events , a special class of events designed to support even the most demanding business use cases. Business process monitoring and optimization.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s also critical to have a strategy in place to address these outages, including both documented remediation processes and an observability platform to help you proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize customer and business impact. This often occurs during major events, promotions, or unexpected surges in usage.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). Ten Tips For The Aspiring Designer Beginners (Part 1). In this article, I want to share ten tips that helped me grow and become a better designer, and I hope these tips will also help you while you’re trying to find more solid ground under your feet. Luis Ouriach.

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DZone

JULY 11, 2024

These operations might arise from one-time data migration projects or ongoing data integration needs with external systems. This robust API is designed to handle large-scale data operations efficiently, simplifying and streamlining the process. In such scenarios, Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 is your solution. Salesforce Bulk API 2.0

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Ensuring high availability in PostgreSQL involves implementing automatic failover, a critical process that maintains database operability and preserves data accessibility when unexpected failures occur. In the event of a primary server failure, standby servers are prepared to assume control, which helps reduce system downtime.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2024

The FedRAMP Moderate baseline is designed to protect sensitive data that, if compromised, could seriously adversely affect operations, assets, or individuals. System Backup now requires the backup of privacy-related system documentation. They help organizations understand risks, improve processes, and boost security readiness.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In this post, we dive deep into how Netflix’s KV abstraction works, the architectural principles guiding its design, the challenges we faced in scaling diverse use cases, and the technical innovations that have allowed us to achieve the performance and reliability required by Netflix’s global operations.

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