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Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

The Netflix TechBlog

In addition, with 193M members and counting, there is a huge diversity in the networks that stream our content as well as in our members’ bandwidth. It is, thus, imperative that we are sensible in the use of the network and of the bandwidth we require. Further tuning of pre-defined encoding parameters.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

With DEM solutions, organizations can operate over on-premise network infrastructure or private or public cloud SaaS or IaaS offerings. STM generates traffic that replicates the typical path or behavior of a user on a network to measure performance for example, response times, availability, packet loss, latency, jitter, and other variables).

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Networking. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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9 key DevOps metrics for success

Dynatrace

It also means developers can receive valuable real-world feedback more quickly, which enables them to prioritize fixes and new features that will have the most impact. Two important ways to improve this metric are to implement quality assurance testing throughout multiple development environments and to automate testing and DevOps processes.

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AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes EC2

Brendan Gregg

My last talk for 2017 was at AWS re:Invent, on "How Netflix Tunes EC2 Instances for Performance," an updated version of my [2014] talk. Our team looks after the BaseAMI, kernel tuning, OS performance tools and profilers, and self-service tools like Vector. Networking. Casey Rosenthal (traffic and chaos) Models of Availability.

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Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

When a new hardware device is connected, the Local Registry detects and collects a set of information about it, such as networking information and ESN. As such, we can see that the traffic load on the Device Management Platform’s control plane is very dynamic over time.

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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices. Our engineering teams tuned their services for performance after factoring in increased resource utilization due to tracing.