The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

by Christos G. Bampis , Li-Heng Chen and Zhi Li When you are binge-watching the latest season of Stranger Things or Ozark, we strive to deliver the best possible video quality to your eyes. To do so, we continuously push the boundaries of streaming video quality and leverage the best video technologies. For example, we invest in next-generation, royalty-free codecs and sophisticated video encoding optimizations.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Performance and Site Reliability Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. Distributed tracing, as the name suggests, is a method of tracking requests as it flows through distributed applications. Along with logs and metrics, distributed tracing makes up the three pillars of observability. While all three signals are important to determine the health of the overall system, distributed tracing has seen significant growth and adoption in recent years.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Following the launch of Dynatrace® Grail for Log Management and Analytics , we’re excited to announce a major update to our Business Analytics solution. Business events powered by our new Grail™ data lakehouse and by other Dynatrace platform technologies ensures the real-time precision that business and IT teams need to make data-driven decisions and improve business outcomes.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon's ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were headed.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By: Peter Cioni (Netflix), Alex Schworer (Netflix), Mac Moore (Conductor Tech.), Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS) Rendering is core to the the VFX process VFX studios around the world create amazing imagery for Netflix productions. Nearly every show that is produced today includes digital visual effects, from the creatures in Stranger Things , to recreating historic London in Bridgerton.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Performance and Site Reliability Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. In the past few years, the complexity of systems architectures drastically increased, especially in distributed, microservices-based architectures. It is extremely hard and, in most cases, inefficient to debug and watch logs, particularly when we have hundreds or even thousands of microservices or modules.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Work-life balance is essential for mental health and well-being. But many organizations today fail to provide employees with the support they need. According to a Deloitte study, nearly one-third (32%) of respondents say they’ve consistently placed work over family/personal commitments in the past six months. The same study found that less than half of respondents (48%) say their organization values their life outside of work.

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Addy Osmani

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Leverage = impact produced / time invested. It is the ability to get more done with less effort, time or money.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This is an article from DZone's 2022 Performance and Site Reliability Trend Report. For more: Read the Report. Software testing is straightforward — every input => known output. However, historically, a great deal of testing has been guesswork. We create user journeys, estimate load and think time, run tests, and compare the current result with the baseline.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We have released Dynatrace Managed version 1.254. To learn what’s new, have a look at the release notes. The post Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.254 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

A few minutes ago, the ISO C++ committee completed its second-to-last meeting of C++23 in Kona, HI, USA. Our host, the Standard C++ Foundation, arranged for high-quality facilities for our six-day meeting from Monday through Saturday. We currently have 26 active subgroups, nine of which met in six parallel tracks throughout the week; some groups ran all week, and others ran for a few days or a part of a day, depending on their workloads.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

WOPR29 is coming and we wonder: how does the current and global situation affects performance testing? And how does it help to overcome historical moments? Let’s find out in this article, with the opinions of Matías Reina, Roger Abelenda, and Paz de Soto, as part. The post What is the Importance of Performance Testing in the Current and Global Situation?

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DZone

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Ransomware attacks on on-premises Exchange Servers are quite common as they store sensitive and confidential information and business data. The attackers often exploit vulnerabilities to gain access to the organization's network and steal or encrypt data for ransom. Even if attackers do not succeed in encrypting the data, they may leave a backdoor or cause other damage that can leave your server unusable or cause permanent data loss.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

We released Dynatrace OneAgent and ActiveGate version 1.253. To learn what’s new, have a look at: OneAgent release notes. ActiveGate release notes. The post OneAgent release notes version 1.253 appeared first on Dynatrace news.

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Tasktop

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It’s a fine line … the balance between having enough data and having the right data. For IT and business leaders who are inundated with data from disparate teams and systems, it can be a challenge to understand how—or even whether—the information in front of them truly impacts their business goals. That’s why we built the Portfolio Insights Dashboard in Planview Tasktop Viz®: to give these leaders a way to drive systemic improvements and ensure problems aren’t disguised by local optimizations or

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

WOPR29 is coming and we wonder: how does the current and global situation affects performance testing services? And how does it help to overcome historical moments? Let’s find out in this article, with the opinions of Matías Reina, Roger Abelenda, and Paz de Soto, as. The post What is the Importance of Performance Testing Services in the Current and Global Situation?

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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Augmented reality (AR) is already making a big splash on mobile. Apple’s official move into augmented reality was announced at WWDC in 2017. Developers then got their hands on the tools to make it happen. Word has been around that this technology will be affordable in the future, and one can pay using cryptocurrencies to buy AR-integrated devices.

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Simform

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Application modernization brings many advantages like enhanced productivity, improved security, and reduced cost. But there are complex challenges too. Learn how to tackle the challenges with a perfect strategy resulting in successful modernization.

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n0derunner

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The on disk size for small DB sizes. Taken from SQLserver properties immediately after creating the TPC-C like schema in HammerDB and then using server and then using Tasks->Shrink->Database. Warehouse Count Database size 10 826 MB 100 8,057 MB. The post Database sizes for HammerDB TPC-C/ SQLserver appeared first on n0derunner.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

WOPR29 is coming and we wonder: how does the current and global situation affects performance testing services? And how does it help to overcome historical moments? Let’s find out in this article, with the opinions of Matías Reina, Roger Abelenda, and Paz de Soto, as. The post What is the Importance of Performance Testing Services in the Current and Global Situation?

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